Causal Inference

3 pages on this site touch on this topic.

• Agency and causal inference: minds default to intention — People spontaneously perceive intention and causal narrative even in simple moving shapes — shaping how coincidences get read as meaningful.
• Causation — One event bringing about, or contributing to, another — a claim needing its own evidence, not established merely by two events co-occurring.
• What randomness does not explain — Showing chance is a sufficient explanation for an event isn't the same as proving no other cause was involved — humility runs both ways.