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Should any of you care for a more philosophical treatment of the idea of "cause", then I can wholeheartedly recommend:

Bertrand Russel, On The Notion Of Cause

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

New Series, Vol. 13 (1912 - 1913), pp. 1-26

It's also surprisingly funny.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4543833

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Here is a copy of the Russel paper free for all:

https://users.drew.edu/jlenz/notion-of-cause/br-notion-of-ca...

Thanks for calling attention to this - it is interesting (and funny).

This is a form of philosophy specifically known as causal processes.

[1] contains a good overview of this that presents Russel and critics (Salmon et. al). (I prefer that philosophy be taken in context rather than from the mouth of a particular philosopher).

1: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-process/

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