Going through network probabilistic reasoning and one strange that keeps bothering me is this idea of causation without time. [that is, the relationships themselves provide the cause and effect, with time effectively becoming “next action” regardless of how long it takes. But that’s not how things work. It may simplify the models but it takes time for processes to work, for ‘before/now’next” “this/thus/that” to occur. On a purely theoretical basis I suppose it’s fine to entertain the ideas but time matters, despite being told all our lives that “time is irrelevant” by somebody or another and believing it, at least once or twice or now or might later.

Going through network probabilistic reasoning and one strange that keeps bothering me is this idea of causation without time. [that is, the relationships themselves provide the cause and effect, with time effectively becoming “next action” regardless of how long it takes.

But that’s not how things work. It may simplify the models but it takes time for processes to work, for ‘before/now’next” “this/thus/that” to occur.

On a purely theoretical basis I suppose it’s fine to entertain the ideas but time matters, despite being told all our lives that “time is irrelevant” by somebody or another and believing it, at least once or twice or now or might later.

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