The only reason we think of causality as moving forward in time is that we subjectively experience time as flowing in that particular direction.

There's no a prori reason to say that event A causes later event B. It's equally logically possible that B is causing A.

Really though I find it more meaningful to say that directional causality is a hoax and time is a static series of connected relationships.

Add "time is fake" to the category of "philosophical positions profoundly influenced by my experiences of dissociation".

@starkatt I don't suppose you're familiar with any of the formalized versions of time as a spatial dimension that we experience only in motion?

@Jssra Formalized philosophically or mathematically?

@starkatt I was thinking philosophically, but there's not a huge difference in this case. :)

@Jssra My take: thinking about time as a spatial dimension can be useful but space is already a human construct so it doesn't actually help explain what time "really" is.

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