Causality: Summary

1) Main Framework

• Causality is removed from the status of an “external law of the world.”
• What is directly given in experience: events, their sequence, and their registration by consciousness.
• “Objective causality outside the observer” is a hypothesis, not an immediate fact of experience.

2) What Must Not Be Lost

• One cannot leap from “there is no external law” to “causality does not exist at all.”
• Even in the minimal scheme, the following remain:
• repetition,
• stability of transitions,
• anticipation of the next state.
• This is already a structure, not merely a collection of frames.

3) Where Causality Arises

With repeated traversal of the route A → B → C:
– after A, an expectation of B arises,
– a violation of that expectation is registered as a disruption,
– the distinction “normal / deviation” emerges.

Result:
– causality = not a “force,” but a stable connection between distinctions,
– more precisely: a stabilized route perceived as connected.

4) Mechanics of the Transition: “Sequence → Connection”

1. Flow of distinctions: there is only a succession of frames.
2. Retention: A is held in memory against the background of B.
3. Superimposition of repetitions: multiple instances are compressed into the scheme A → B.
4. Expectation: upon a new A, B is preactivated.
5. Violation (A → X): confirms that the connection had already been constructed.

Working definition:
– a connection = a stable expectation of a transition that can be confirmed or violated.

5) How Causality Is Turned into a “Law”

Distinction between levels:
– expectation: “B is more likely,”
– necessity: “B must occur.”

The substitution proceeds as follows:
1. a stable route is distinguished,
2. its weight is increased,
3. alternatives are suppressed,
4. the result is presented as an “external law.”

The cost of fixation:
– reduced sensitivity to the new,
– disregard for deviations,
– defense of the scheme instead of engagement with meaning.

6) Interpretation Through SENSMAP

• A, B are nodes of distinctions,
• A → B is a route,
• repetition means an increase in the route’s weight,
• expectation means activation of the next node before actual registration.

Formula:
– causality = a highly weighted route + an activated prediction.

7) Practical Conclusion: Releasing Fixation Without Losing Navigation

Distinguish 3 levels:
1. the flow of distinctions,
2. routes (statistics of transitions),
3. fixation (“it must happen only this way”).

Only level 3 needs to be released from fixation.

The appropriate replacement:
– before: A → B (necessarily),
– after: A → B (high probability, but not the only path).

Effect:
– speed is preserved (the main route remains),
– alternatives remain possible,
– deviation is read as information rather than an “error of the world.”

8) Strong Concluding Formulations

• Causality is not given as an external, independent law.
• It arises from the fixation of recurring sequences and the stabilization of routes within the field of meaning.
• A “cause” is not a hidden force but a stabilized distinction between states.
• “Law of causality” = route + expectation + prohibition of deviation.
• Releasing fixation = removing necessity while preserving the route’s weight and predictive function.

9) In One Line

In this framework, causality is not an ontological “force of the world” but a mode of consciousness navigating stable yet fundamentally revisable routes.

Source

• Chat: https://chatgpt.com/c/69e16c36-6290-83ea-b6c0-0a651e4fb1a8