Backward causality is not something only physicists think about. Philosophers have thought about it a lot. We'll read about a classic paper Bringing about the past (1964), Michael Dummett.
I'm going to just pick out memorable and easily understandable tidbits that collage to a picture of what the theory of backward causality is about, and not try to summarize the whole thing -- if you want the whole thing, read the paper in whole.
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Sunday, October 21, 2018
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