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Causation represents a mechanism that drives something to happen. You can find causes in things like natural laws governing interactions of matter and energy, human psychology, etc. These things are INHERENT to the subjects that is doing the action, regardless of the existence and manner of an observer
Correlation is a statistical phenomena that us human beings observe, using a particular kind of abstraction we chose to measure and represent the things that interest us. We create ways of numerically measuring things, the units that represent these measurements, and we plot a series of measurements on a Cartesian coordinate system and we go “look at that, these two lines sure look close to each other”. The concept of “correlation” does not exist, without us observing and describing in a particular way.
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