Subjective Causality

Yotam Alexander and Itzhak Gilboa

Revue économique, 2023, vol. 74, issue 4, 619-633

Abstract: When do people tend to believe that a phenomenon x was the cause of a subsequent phenomenon y? We suggest that the subjective sense of causality would emerge only if x explains y, for example, in the sense of reducing its Kolmogorov complexity. We also discuss the relationship of explanation to predictability as sources of the subjective sense of causality in more general set-ups. JEL Codes: D80.

Keywords: causality; Kolmogorov complexity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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