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GrahamH wrote:

BWE wrote:http://complexitylabs.io/nonlinear-causality/

That all seems rather obvious except for this bit:

With a control system the structure and initial conditions may not matter, what matters is the goal, future goals can determine current actions. Here we can note causality reversing as it goes from some projected future event, back to affect the present state.

A goal is a present state predicting what may happen later, not a 'future event'. There is no 'causality reversing' to that. Whether the prediction turns out to be accurate, or th event never happens later makes no difference to the present state.