This made me think of #nostr

“The concept of pratītyasamutpāda (dependent co-origination) is central to Buddhist philosophy. It states that all conventional objects arise dependent on other objects as conditions — like the existence of fire depends on the presence of fuel. This principle reflexively applies to the causes themselves, which are dependently originated from other causes and so on.

An important nuance on the nature of the dependence described here, is that it isn’t a one-way street, but a kind of mutual interrelation. A cause isn’t said to have any primacy over the effect, since it only derives the property of being a cause only through the effect that it produces.”