Causality as Imaginary Phenomenon

Idea: because our perception presents things to us one after another, our brain postulates a relation of cause and effect.

Counter-idea: our perception presents things to us one after another because our brain cannot process everything at the same time (thus time seems to slow down when many things happen that our perception transports to our consciousness). It isn’t necessary that things happen one after another; it could also be that, among a set of eternally co-present things, we create different paths that seem to depend on time, but only create an impression of it. (Same as with a non-linear set of textual fragments: going from one to another by one of the possible paths creates a succession, but an arbitrary, non meaningful one; yet which is necessary in order to go through what there is (as we cannot read everything simultaneously)).

Arbitrary, non meaningful succession, even if subsequently analyzed into beginning, middle and end, cause, meaning and effect. Afterwards, we may evaluate its relevance, but it was in any case conceived. What is conceived, even if later disproved, knows a kind of existence and persists, imaginarily, after its disproval.