The Associative Coherence of Events

The rules of associative coherence tell us what happened. We are ready from birth to have impressions of causality which do not depend on reasoning about patterns of causation. The aristocratic belgian psychologist albert michott published a book in 19 forty five, translated into english in 19 63 that overturned centuries of thinking about causality. He argued that we see causality just as directly as we see color. If the second object starts moving, instantly, they describe it as having been launched by the first. Six month old infants see the sequence of events as a cause effect scenario and indicate surprise when the sequence is altered.