In the Matrix, the Frenchman is all hung up on Cause and Effect. He believes that is the only way the world works. And yet it has been proven that the human nervous system can trigger the brain about some event even before the event actually happens.
Another case where effect preceeded cause was with 9/11: even before the planes flew into the towers, random number generators on the Internet were displaying a definite skew away from their median values!
