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If you only turn on the sprinkler when it rains, the wet grass is still causally linked to the rain. There's just extra mediation - you.
by benched 13y ago
If you only turn on the sprinkler when it rains, the wet grass is still causally linked to the rain. There's just extra mediation - you.
- rm999 13y agoWhat you're saying insinuates I must turn on the sprinkler when it rains, which is not true. Just because I have my whole life doesn't mean I will for eternity. It's simply a correlation - I tend to turn on the sprinkler when it rains. The only causation is that the grass becomes wet when the sprinkler turns on.
- benched 13y agoThe only way this would have meaning for me would be if causation has a special, jargon meaning in this context that specifically means direct, deterministic causation.