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Causality and Cause are foundational aspects of Reality, active expressions of the Agency of the Source of Reality. They are, respectively, the Dimensionality and the Dimension associated with the Fundamental Force, and, more generally, to the Derived Forces—manifestations of the Fundamental Force and Derivative Agents—operating in the incessant construction of the causal fabric of Reality.

Causality

Causality is one of the fundamental Dimensionalities of Reality, the foundation of the causal dimension, a fundamental emerging property of Reality, and one of the two modes of expression of the Source.

Causality represents the relation that binds Force to Action, and more broadly, Derived Agents / Forces to Derived Action, Agents / Forces to Events, and to Relations that organize them in Processes. The Causal Dimension—limitless—extends from the elementary to the complex, forming a continuum that incessantly realizes the Formation (Creation and Evolution) of Reality.

It spans from uncertainty and indetermination to finality. This dimension serves as a metric for the level of organization within the Structures of Information and the Forms that incessantly evolve in the Elementary Field—a scale of Complexity within Reality and the Forms that inhabit it.

The milestones along this continuous dimension include:

• uncertainty (chaos, random order, minimum level of Organization, minimal correlation between Events, etc.) -> the form of Causality typical of the quantum realm
• certainty (the organization of classical forms of ordinary Reality, objects of "normal" Reality) -> typical of the world of classical physics
• finality (the high level of expression of the dynamic and conservative aspects of Living Forms) -> characteristic of the more complex aspects of Reality—the cognitive aspects expressed through the Cognitive Systems of Living Beings and synthetic autonomous agents (automata, AI)

Causality attains to the fact and the ways in which Agents / Forces / Causes acting on Acted / Fields / Space-Time produce Events (variations) / effects, Action, both at the elementary level of Reality, where the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field interact producing the Elementary Events, and, more in general, at the more complex level, where Derived Agents / Forces acting on Derived Acted / Fields produce complex events, Derived Action.

Causality pertains to the fact and the manner in which Agents / Forces / Causes, acting upon Acted / Fields / Space-Time, produce Events (variations) / effects—Action—both at the elementary level of Reality, where the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field interact to generate Elementary Events, and more generally, at higher levels of complexity, where Derived Agents / Forces act upon Derived Acted / Fields to produce complex events—Derived Action.

In this sense, causality can be considered the fundamental expression of Agency, on its active side. The fundamental expression of the causal principle / property of the Force / Forces. Closely related with the Operator of Reality that we call Perturbation, an expression of the more general operator Variation.

In a relational approach to the study of Nature, causality is a property emerging from the Relation between the two fundamental aspects of the Source and of the sources: between the Force / forces and the Field / fields, from the relation between the action of the forces and the effects they produce on / in fields. Hence, Causality, as the other two fundamental dimensionalities, must be intended as a relational property with reference to Events. In this sense we can say that causality don't exists, it happens, or make Reality happen. It is an aspect of phenomena, a product of the dynamics of the inner interaction of the two aspects of the Source of Reality.

Cause

Cause is any direct expression of Agents / Forces, in the context of Agency, where the action of Agents / Forces produces Events, variations in the Acted / Fields, the "effects" in short, in the inner interactions between the two complementary aspects of the Sources.

Cause finds its foundation in Causality, one of the fundamental Dimensionalities of Reality, a fundamental emerging property of Reality.

Cause assumes different meaning, aspects, properties, limits, constraints, in the two complementary domains of Nature, the Physical and the Cognitive Reality

Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper

• Go to the contents list of the paper "The Fundamental Nature of Reality"

• Go to Chapter 2 "A first look"