Autocausality

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According to the theories of applied philosophy, there are three types of events in the universe: causal (Newtonian) events, which are the direct and predictable result of other events, acausal (quantum) events, which take place in the absence of any known cause, and autocausal events, which cause themselves. Autocausal events are at the base of free will.

Autocausal events can only take place within a field of autocausality. The human nervous system, through currently unknown means, generates a small, weak autocausal field. Human beings, according to this theory, do not so much make decisions as nudge themselves towards certain decisions; chemical and neurological factors are equally strong in human behavior. However, the autocausal field is enough to create the experience that human beings experience as free will.

In B.C.Y. 2, the Santa Cruz Five created the first known field of artificial autocausality, and in the process created -- or discovered -- Philosophical/Virtual Reality.