I have the opposite impressions. Science should embrace causality more and do it better. And as a layman term it should be refined so that we stop talking about the causes of any event as a cake where each slice has a name and only one name.
I find it hard to summarize why, at least right now, but my view is sorta similar to Pearl’s (though I don’t totally like how he puts it). Hopefully later I’ll re-read this more attentively and comment something more productive (if no one has done a strictly better job already).
I believe the thing we differ on might just be a semantic, at least as far as redefinition goes. My final conclusion is around the fact that the term is bad because it’s ill-defined, but with a stronger definitions (or ideally multiple definitions for different cases) it would be useful, it would also, however, be very foreign to a lot of people.
I have the opposite impressions. Science should embrace causality more and do it better. And as a layman term it should be refined so that we stop talking about the causes of any event as a cake where each slice has a name and only one name.
I find it hard to summarize why, at least right now, but my view is sorta similar to Pearl’s (though I don’t totally like how he puts it). Hopefully later I’ll re-read this more attentively and comment something more productive (if no one has done a strictly better job already).
I believe the thing we differ on might just be a semantic, at least as far as redefinition goes. My final conclusion is around the fact that the term is bad because it’s ill-defined, but with a stronger definitions (or ideally multiple definitions for different cases) it would be useful, it would also, however, be very foreign to a lot of people.