CAUSE ? If nearly everything influences everything else, the word ‘cause’ begins to lose its meaning

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Ney writes, assuming we look to physics to ground or understand causality:

[T]here are a lot of causal relations at this world, perhaps a lot more than we ordinarily assume. The fields of our best physical theories are spread out across the entire universe and interact with everything in their reach. They link small events like your leaving the house this morning with those more significant ones transpiring in Iraq a little later and more distant ones farther away in the galaxy. It is not quite true on this picture that ‘everything causes everything’, but things come close.

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