I take this to be basic linearity: input (before) output(after and as a result of.) B follows A in time and is caused (at least partly) by A, and before A was something else all the way back into the mists.
"Chance" means (on this scenario, I think) side hits from other ABC causal (linear) events.
Put the whole lot together and you have chaos, but only because we can't put ourselves in the position to follow each line.
If I have understood the intro. to the I-Ching (me and understand=big IF), the (ancient?) chinese attitude didn't hold to this model. It didn't follow past to present to future, but rather saw present spreading out in all directions.
I'm assuming that what we have discovered so far of what we call the quantum world does not follow the ABC model of reality.
If our brains are quantum in their centres (inside the inside the inside etc.) then they, too, cease to be simply ABC boxes.
Which is why I would enjoy reading a diary by Migeru on anything quantum-related. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Did you read this?
What's difficult about Quantum Mechanics is that it is contextual, non-counterfactual and nonlocal.
