Talk:Causality Manipulation/@comment-116.193.72.98-20121120040828/@comment-26241075-20121120143314

Excellent question. The answer is depend on the perception of man rather than a natural law. Here is my explanation:

Causality is an a priori of thought. These are the prerequisites to be able to think : Time (memory), Depth, Height, Width, Cause and Effect, they are properties of the mind not of the perceived.

As such all effects have no cause, any cause has no effect. Just the fact that the one precedes the other makes us think there exists a causal link.

The apple falls near the tree. What is the cause ? Gravity. Gravity is not a cause, it is an explanation. It is a condition. In order for the apple to be attracted by the earth, "gravity" must exist. As there must be an apple, a tree, and earth. They are conditions necessary for the apple to be able to fall near the tree. (Some would include a witness as a condition, for otherwise we would never know if the apple has fallen and if it was near the tree on earth. ) Gravity is a construct, chaining the events.

But if we have a series of conditions - instead of causal links- to make some events a possibility, we have a deterministic trajectory with a probability.

But modern man does not believe in deterministic trajectories - he is a an avid defender of "everything free". So our psyche hides this fact from us and changes a deterministic probability trajectory into a (simplistic) causal chain. We name the first event "cause" and the second "effect"."