Robin Marantz Henig

Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.

Writer

Emily Oster

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

American Economist

Jean Piaget

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

Swiss Psychologist

Paramahansa Yogananda

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.

Indian Leader

Ernst Haeckel

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

German Scientist

Michael Shermer

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Hans Jonas

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

German Philosopher

Dominic Cummings

Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook in the field.

British Public Servant

Max Weber

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

German Economist

Robert Zubrin

The relationship between carbon consumption and human well-being is causal, not coincidental.

American Scientist

Use 'causal' to describe a proven or strongly suspected link between two events or conditions.

Causation Evidence

'Causal' implies more than coincidence; it suggests one thing is the result of another.

Not Coincidental

'Causal' is often used in scientific and medical research to discuss why or how something happens.

Scientific Discussions

In philosophy, 'causal' is used to discuss deeper reasons behind phenomena, not just observable links.

Philosophical Reasoning

'Causal' can denote an event that is necessary for another event to happen, especially in historical or philosophical contexts.

Antecedent Events

Use 'causal' to dissect motives or reasons behind actions when writing analytically.

Analyzing Motives

 and that's how nature works. That's how it's possible for consciousness to function causally. Okay, now with that in mind, with going through these various features of consciousness, let's go back and answer some of those early objections. Well, the first one I said was, consciousness doesn't exist,

John Searle: Our shared...

 Each of them is in a romantic relationship and each has a rich repertoire of friends. But watch out here -- this is merely correlational data, not causal, and it's about happiness in the first, "Hollywood" sense, I'm going to talk about, happiness of ebullience and giggling and good cheer.

The new era of positive...

 One is about a problem of generalization, and the other is about a problem of causal reasoning. And although I'm going to talk about work in my lab, this work is inspired by and indebted to a field. I'm grateful to mentors, colleagues, and collaborators around the world.

Laura Schulz: The...

 is a phenomenon called mutual causal interaction, where x affects y, y affects x, and so on, creating an ongoing process called a feedback loop. And the natural world is full of these mechanisms formed by the links between living and nonliving things

Feedback loops: How...

 Correlation in itself doesn't prove causality. We spend a good bit of time. And indeed, people know the causal links quite well in some of these outcomes. The big change in our understanding of drivers of chronic health in the rich developed world

How economic inequality...

 That's why working with people with brain lesions is so important to neuroscience. It adds some causal evidence that a brain area might be required for a behavior. Same with brain simulation studies. If stimulating a brain area causes a behavior,

Diagnosing a zombie:...

 This chemical scum has universality. Its structure contains, with ever-increasing precision, the structure of everything. This place, and not other places in the universe, is a hub which contains within itself the structural and causal essence

David Deutsch: Chemical...

 the great golf courses and the amazing beaches also you can always feel our great southern hospitality in the great seafood we give and the beautiful places with the smiling face bippity gardens is a causal inside my school at liberty

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 But I don't think that we were that way initially. There are many people who think that the animal world is hard-wired and that there's something very, very special about man. Maybe it's his ability to have causal thought.

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh:...

 and is nothing like a brain or neurons. And that reality, whatever it is, is the real source of cause and effect in the world -- not brains, not neurons. Brains and neurons have no causal powers.