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by layer8 387 days ago
Causation is a higher-level emergent phenomenon. At the fundamental level of physics, causation does not exist, not the least due to the time symmetry of the physical laws of nature. The future correlates to the past just as the past correlates to the future.

Also, facts are true without any cause. There is no cause of why 2 + 2 is 4. It just is what it is. (One might call it “being”.)