Because cause and effect is more understandable and controllable in one direction.
Everything we do takes advantage of the higher to lower entropy gradient.
We get relatively organized photons from the sun, a percentage get stored in wood of trees, so we can burn that for heat which can drive an engine or generate electricity, with the end result is doing some useful work.
And we don’t actually lose any energy, due to conservation of energy.
But we have now lost USABLE energy, because all our captured energy is now heat diffusely spreading out from our engine into the atmosphere where it becomes uncontrolled DISORGANIZED and therefore no longer usable.
So clear causes tend to occur in past of clear effects.
For large objects.
But again, if you watch videos of individual marbles bouncing around, forward or backward, you see just as clear chains of cause and effect in either direction.
Everything we do takes advantage of the higher to lower entropy gradient.
We get relatively organized photons from the sun, a percentage get stored in wood of trees, so we can burn that for heat which can drive an engine or generate electricity, with the end result is doing some useful work.
And we don’t actually lose any energy, due to conservation of energy.
But we have now lost USABLE energy, because all our captured energy is now heat diffusely spreading out from our engine into the atmosphere where it becomes uncontrolled DISORGANIZED and therefore no longer usable.
So clear causes tend to occur in past of clear effects.
For large objects.
But again, if you watch videos of individual marbles bouncing around, forward or backward, you see just as clear chains of cause and effect in either direction.