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Full Idea
It is now accepted as a fact of modern science that unidirectional actions do not exist, and that all interactions are instead thoroughly reciprocal.
Gist of Idea
Science now says all actions are reciprocal, not unidirectional
Source
R.D. Ingthorsson (A Powerful Particulars View of Causation [2021], 3.10)
Book Ref
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.59
A Reaction
Ingthorsson says this undermines the standard traditional view (Hobbes etc) of Agent and Patient, with A having active powers and P having passive powers. All influences are mutual, it seems. Passive powers are active structures?