Retrocausality

[Orlando Leibovitz]

Orlando Leibovitz here. The October-December issue of What Is
Enlightenment magazine contains an article about the Big Bang that
discusses the concept of events preceding their cause...retrocausality.
It states that "Richard Feynman even offered mathematical proofs of how
certain properities of physics work just as well backward as forward in
time". See the attachments for the work of John Cramer at the University
of Washington. Best to all.

[David Breecker]

If I remember correctly (caveat: it's been 20 years, and I barely  
understood it then), Feynman's "Quantum Chromodynamics" said many  
things work well backwards, and there is no absolute forwards.  Or  
something like that.

But perhaps more interesting to this thread, I'm reading a well-
researched novel (Richard Power's "Echo Maker") dealing with  
neuropathological syndromes, and it makes reference to one in which  
cause and effect are reversed in the mind of the sufferer.

Does anyone know what this syndrome is?
db

On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Orlando Leibovitz wrote:

> Orlando Leibovitz here. The October-December issue of What Is
> Enlightenment magazine contains an article about the Big Bang that
> discusses the concept of events preceding their  
> cause...retrocausality.
> It states that "Richard Feynman even offered mathematical proofs of  
> how
> certain properities of physics work just as well backward as  
> forward in
> time". See the attachments for the work of John Cramer at the  
> University
> of Washington. Best to all.
>
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[Merle Lefkoff]

David Breecker wrote:

> If I remember correctly (caveat: it's been 20 years, and I barely
> understood it then), Feynman's "Quantum Chromodynamics" said many
> things work well backwards, and there is no absolute forwards.  Or
> something like that.
>
> But perhaps more interesting to this thread, I'm reading a
> well-researched novel (Richard Power's "Echo Maker") dealing with
> neuropathological syndromes, and it makes reference to one in which
> cause and effect are reversed in the mind of the sufferer.
>
> Does anyone know what this syndrome is?
> db
>
> On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Orlando Leibovitz wrote:
>
>> Orlando Leibovitz here. The October-December issue of What Is
>> Enlightenment magazine contains an article about the Big Bang that
>> discusses the concept of events preceding their cause...retrocausality.
>> It states that "Richard Feynman even offered mathematical proofs of how
>> certain properities of physics work just as well backward as forward in
>> time". See the attachments for the work of John Cramer at the University
>> of Washington. Best to all.
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>>
>
> dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc.
> Santa Fe: 505-690-2335
> Abiquiu:   505-685-4891
> www.BreeckerAssociates.com
>
>
>
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David,

I read Powers' book when it came out last year (for those of you who
don't know his work, this gifted novelist is a MacArthur Fellow who
channels his characters), and the protagonist is a victim of "Capgrass
Syndrome" , the inability to recognize those close to you, as the result
of a brain injury.  But I don't remember any specific reference to
reversing cause and effect.

Merle