Causes traveling forward in time to appear after the effect is a
conclusion I've reached about several things in life. It's
sometimes just easier to go about things that way. Solving a
maze before starting as it were. [end to front]. The strict
adherence to a ---> of Time always seemed a little short-sighted
to me. I have no qualms about causes appearing after effects.
Of course simultaneousity was supposedly disproven by Einstein.
All relative and such. Still, I always go back to zoom
levels....
[and yes, American Pragmatism at work here]:
Sometimes it is easier to treat linear complicated events
occurring in 'tight' time scales as simultaneous. I also think
it can be impractical and even undesirable to make *everything*
into a point.
When I play a chord on the piano, there's a difference between
the striking of the notes. They're not strictly simultaneous.
Yet, they might as well be. That sort of thing.
I *could* consider them linear and there are circumstances in
which that's desirable. But again, I speak of human usage - the
pragmatist in me. Even if I was to program a robot to play that
chord, I would program it "as if' it was simultaneous, unless I
was trying to keep the human-not-quite-simultaneous in the
system to better mimic a human.
Hm - thinking about it, this is a good case for your perfected
man.
