What if the Effect Comes Before the Cause?

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What would it mean if effects come before their causes? Today, I have a closer look at retrocausality in general and the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in particular.

This paper is a good starting point to learn more about this: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508102

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00:00 Introduction
00:25 Space-time Causality
02:46 Interventionist Causality
05:46 Retrocausality and Time-travel
09:36 The Transactional Interpretation
16:51 What does it mean?
17:56 Sponsor Message