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A comment on Actual Causality (2016). Parent comment

Re:Actual Causality (2016) by CrazyStat on Monday March 16, 2020 @08:21PM (#22599934)
Not surprising, since mutual information is a fundamentally non-causal concept. This is easily seen by nothing that the mutual information of X and Y is the same as the mutual information of Y and X, which means that mutual information can't distinguish between "X causes Y" and "Y causes X".
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Re:Actual Causality (2016) by skat20phys on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:01PM (#22601169)
There are causal accounts that use mutual information and its variants though. A lot of them introduce notions of directed mutual information and other similar concepts.
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