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    Supports→Retrocausation (the later coin flip A causing the earlier prediction B) generates a paradox because intervention is always possible after the prediction is made.

    Causal processes that run backwards in time are constrained by consistency conditions (Novikov's self-consistency principle) that physically prohibit interventions that would generate paradoxes.

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    Backwards in time(referring to time travel scenarios)
    Events happening in reverse chronological order, where an effect occurs before its cause—the opposite of how time normally flows.
    Causal processes(as used in philosophy)
    A chain of events where one thing causes another to happen; the natural sequence of cause and effect already in motion.
    Consistency conditions(in logic and philosophy of action)
    Rules or requirements that ensure your choices or beliefs don't contradict each other in illogical ways.
    Interventions(as used in experimental science)
    Actions or changes that a scientist deliberately makes to test what happens—for example, giving a drug or stimulating a specific brain region to see the effect.
    Novikov's self-consistency principle

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    (as used in physics and philosophy of time)
    A rule proposed by physicist Igor Novikov stating that if you travel back in time, you can only do things that are already part of history—you can't create paradoxes or change what already happened.
    paradox(R. M. Sainsbury's definition, presented as a target of criticism)
    An apparently unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises

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