[MD] Heads or tails?

[Krimel]

> [Case]
> An end in this sense is a model of the future based on experience of the
> past. It is assuredly not an event in the future exerting some mysterious
> pull on the present. Cause and effect have suffered much abuse during the
> last century but certainly not that much. Even in probabilistic form they 
> do
> not lend themselves to the future causing the present.
>

DM: You seem rather certain about the status of the future yet how
are we to distinguish the possible from the impossible if their status
is not different? 

[Krimel]
Maybe you could explain how it is that some future state can have causal
effects on the present.