Right, as long as you don’t require causal connection for branching. To my mind “branching” suggests a causal connection, but the OP favors a pattern identity theory, so causal connection may be irrelevant.
Right, as long as you don’t require causal connection for branching. To my mind “branching” suggests a causal connection, but the OP favors a pattern identity theory, so causal connection may be irrelevant.