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    Challenges→Every conjunctive fork ACB where C is earlier than A and B must belong to a closed fork ABCD

    Boltzmannian statistical mechanics shows that macro-level correlations can be destroyed by entropy increase, so D may fail the probabilistic screening-off condition that defines a fork.

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    Key Terms

    Boltzmannian(statistical mechanics taxonomy)
    A classification for schools of statistical mechanics that use variants of the theoretical framework associated with Boltzmann (1877)
    Entropy(physics/thermodynamics)
    A measure of disorder or randomness in a system; higher entropy means things are more chaotic and disorganized.
    Fork(as used in philosophy of causation and epistemology)
    A pattern in causation where one event in the past causes two separate events in the present, creating a correlation between those two present events.
    Probabilistic screening-off condition(as used in epistemology and philosophy of causation)
    A logical rule stating that if one event completely explains the connection between two other events, then those two events become independent of each other.

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    Statistical mechanics(Philosophy of physics)
    The discipline that addresses how the thermodynamic and mechanical ways of looking at a system fit together; the study of the connection between micro-physics and macro-physics, aiming to account for a system's macro behaviour in terms of the dynamical laws governing its microscopic constituents.
    macro-level(as used in physics and metaphysics)
    The large-scale or everyday-sized level of things we can see and touch, as opposed to tiny atomic or microscopic scales.

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