Quantum Nonlocality and Causation

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What, if anything, do the nonlocal correlations in the results of EPR experiments indicate with regards to causation? (That is, with regards to whether or not/how causation is [is not] operative in giving the resulting correlated measurements?)
 
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Causality is one thing and another the Nonlocality
any event can affect two or more events set apartNorsen
“It isn’t necessarily that something in region 2 is causally
influencing something in region 1, or vice versa. It is
always possible that there is some other event, neither
in region 1 nor region 2, which was not determined by
[λ], and which itself causally influences both [beables in
region 1] and [in region 2]. The point is, though, that this
causal influence would have to be non-local"

and in the the overlap of the backward light cones of the events.
 
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