I’ve been curious about causation for as long as I can remember…

“It is the faith that only what lives and thinks is effective—the faith in will and purpose; it is the faith that all that happens is a doing, and that all doing presupposes a doer” … “The alleged instinct for causality is merely the fear of the unfamiliar and the attempt to discover something familiar in it–a search not for causes, but for the familiar”

My takeaway - if we assume the world is without predefined meaning, then it may follow that cause-and-effect as we experience it is not a thing inherent to it. It’s better understood as a human urge for understanding.