Any reversible effect might be reversed. The question asks about the final effects of the mind
This talk of “reversible” and “final” effects of a mind strikes me as suspicious: for one, in a block / timeless universe, there’s no such thing as “reversible” effects, and for another, in the end, it may wash out in an entropic mess! But it does suggest a rephrasing of “a first-order approximation of the (direction of the) effects, understood both spatially and temporally”.
I don’t really like the block-universe thing in this context. Here “reversible” refers to a time-course that doesn’t particularly have to be physical causality; it’s whatever course of sequential determination is relevant. E.g., don’t cut yourself off from acausal trades.
I think “reversible” definitely needs more explication, but until proven otherwise I think it should be taken on faith that the obvious intuition has something behind it.
This talk of “reversible” and “final” effects of a mind strikes me as suspicious: for one, in a block / timeless universe, there’s no such thing as “reversible” effects, and for another, in the end, it may wash out in an entropic mess! But it does suggest a rephrasing of “a first-order approximation of the (direction of the) effects, understood both spatially and temporally”.
I don’t really like the block-universe thing in this context. Here “reversible” refers to a time-course that doesn’t particularly have to be physical causality; it’s whatever course of sequential determination is relevant. E.g., don’t cut yourself off from acausal trades.
I think “reversible” definitely needs more explication, but until proven otherwise I think it should be taken on faith that the obvious intuition has something behind it.