  This paper discusses how the transactional interpretation of quantum
mechanics can provide for a natural account of the emergence of spacetime
events from a quantum substratum. In this account, spacetime is not a
substantive manifold that becomes occupied with events; rather, spacetime
itself exists only in virtue of specific actualized events. This implies that
spacetime is discrete rather than continuous, and that properties attributed to
spacetime based on the notion of a continuum are idealizations that do not
apply to the real physical world. It is further noted that the transactional
picture of the emergence of spacetime can provide the quantum dynamics that
underlie the causal set approach as proposed by Sorkin and others.
