{"id":16,"date":"2000-09-15T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2000-09-15T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=25"},"modified":"2000-09-15T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2000-09-15T07:00:06","slug":"the-impossibility-of-asymmetric-causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2000\/09\/15\/the-impossibility-of-asymmetric-causation\/","title":{"rendered":"The impossibility of asymmetric causation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font> Apart from the innate symmetricity of structural equation systems, the very definition for the conditional probability as well as Bayes&#39;s law of inverse probability unambiguously suggest the reversibility of cause-effect relationships.  &#8230;<br \/> &#8220;<em>A<\/em> is a cause of <em>B<\/em> only when <em>B<\/em> can cause <em>A<\/em>.&#39;&#39; Amen.<br \/> (Quoted from Mr. Asha review of <em>Causality<\/em>, amazon.com, August 29, 2000) <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from the innate symmetricity of structural equation systems, the very definition for the conditional probability as well as Bayes&#39;s law of inverse probability unambiguously suggest the reversibility of cause-effect relationships. &#8230; &#8220;A is a cause of B only when B can cause A.&#39;&#39; Amen. (Quoted from Mr. Asha review of Causality, amazon.com, August 29, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}