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by Ygg2 4572 days ago
TL;DR. Theory of evolution meets anthropic principle

I think you are missing my point as well. Reality IS non-local, we just PERCEIVE it as local. No triangle on Earth surface has sum of angles 180, but we say - well it's close enough to 180 so lets say it's 180.

We perceive causality because it's an easier approximation than calculating probability distribution of each molecule. It's like a Russian doll, we perceive the outer doll as whole because we don't look close enough.

Because we don't need to. Evolution didn't specialize us to notice the subtle effect of quantum reality, when a good enough approximation allows us to survive and thrive. We perceive things we perceive, because of their importance for our survival. True nature of reality isn't important to our survival. Thus we don't perceive it.

Reality requires infinite amount of data to process. So we approximate it to stop being overwhelmed.

E.g. geocentric or heliocentric model of solar system are both equally valid. We just choose Heliocentric because its orbits are easier to calculate. Or earth is essentially flat even though it's a sphere etc.

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> We perceive causality because it's an easier approximation than calculating probability distribution of each molecule.

That's not true. Causality is the very mode of operation of the world and it is a requirement for anything to exist at all. Without causality there would be no change and no change means no existence.

Probabilistic models only indicate the degree to which the system is not understood by the observer before his/her confirmation of the system state.

Ok, gonna be more specific, but I meant the classical notion of causality. Ball A hits ball B that hits ball C, where each effect occurred in respective chronological order that was given.

Quantuum theory proves that ball A can hit ball B that will travel back in time and hit ball C before ball B was hit. The causality isn't as narrow as in classical physics.

Also another thing to note - that all molecules in any matter move in random direction all the time, as so much their bounds allow them. It is not inconceivable that all molecules of a gold coin could simply move in the same direction and flip the coin by themselves. Chances of gold coins flipping on their own aren't impossible, just very very very very... improbable.