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    It is not the case that If an agent can cause a prior event, a second agent could cause a prior event that blocks the first cause, generating an irresolvable causal loop.

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    • 1.Backward causation may be logically impossible regardless of agents; the argument conflates metaphysical possibility with logical consistency.
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    • 2.Causal loops might resolve through consistency constraints: only outcomes compatible with all agents' backward causes can actualize (Novikov principle).
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    • 3.The argument assumes agents have independent causal powers over the past; but the past is fixed, limiting what 'causing prior events' can mean.
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    • 1.Backward causation allows multiple agents temporal access to the same event, creating genuine conflict potential between their causal powers.
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    • 2.Without logical constraints preventing mutual blocking, two agents with backward causal powers face an unsolvable priority problem.
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    • 3.Physical laws require determinate outcomes; irresolvable loops violate this, suggesting backward causation generates genuine logical contradictions.
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