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Full Idea
The causal connection between the past and the present seems to require that the past is as real as the present.
Gist of Idea
To say that the past causes the present needs them both to be equally real
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 08 'First')
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.140
A Reaction
Cause and effect need to conjoin in space, but their subsequent separation doesn't seem to be a problem. The idea that causes and their effects must be eternally compresent is an absurdity.