I agree that it's about selecting which events are salient and which to leave out. And yes, putting them into sequence. But does that always imply causality? I'

I agree that it's about selecting which events are salient and which to leave out. And yes, putting them into sequence. But does that always imply causality? I'm not sure. Maybe it does. If you say "Anne divorced John and then he died", the mind fills in an implied cause. If you say "John got cancer and then he died", it fills in a different cause. The key point to me seems to be selection bias, though: what you chose to include vs. leave out in the two stories.