In simplest terms, cause and effect is how people rationalize their decisions and actions. There is no need for a connection to reality when we rationalize. Cause and effect is caused by our constant search for cause.
The current model of cause and effect has a big hole even on the limited first floor, especially in medicine. Modern medicine sees cause and effect as a cause in the past produces an effect in the future. Modern medicine has no concept of present-cause because modern medicine does not study cures. A cure addresses the present-cause, the cure cause of an illness element. A cure of a flat tire addressed the present deficiency of air, or the present hole, or perhaps the present missing valve stem... Similarly, a cure of elementary depression addressed the present nutritional cause, or the present abuse cause, or the present toxic medicine cause... Past causes of the flat tire, the winter storage, the nail, or the malicious adolescent who stole the valve stem cannot be accessed to cure. Only the present cause is present. Similarly, addressing ast causes of the nutritional deficiency, abuse, or toxic medicine cannot cure the depression. Only addressing the present causes, the cure causes, can cure. Modern medicine believes viruses are the cause of many complex diseases, but the cure for COVID acute respiratory system distress cannot be found in the virus, cannot be cured by addressing any viral cause.
To your health, Tracy