A process can be either causal or non-causal (pseudo).    From Wordnik.com.  [Causal Processes] Reference

Smoothing operations are non-causal, Matlab help helps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holgate on Sea Level « Climate Audit] Reference

This is our strongest weapon against non-causal beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mailbag Monday: Edition "Religion is dopaminergic."] Reference

Any explanation of reliability must be causal or non-causal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Realism] Reference

The other way, btw, is by building a non-causal system model.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swindle Complaint and Myles Allen « Climate Audit] Reference

Reasons provide an autonomous, non-causal form of explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Will] Reference

This will include non-causal objects such as spots and shadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causal Processes] Reference

There also appear to be physical explanations that are non-causal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference

Yea I have another name for a non-causal relationship…a memory bug.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC and Data Access « Climate Audit] Reference

In this case, the higher fees would have been non-causal in my behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on Nobelity] Reference

Perhaps then some sort of non-causal explanation of the correlation is possible?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Realism] Reference

Or is the argument that HGT implies non-causal interrelations without true descent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Universal Common Ancestor - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Others treat some of the suggested limiting factors as causal and others as non-causal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation in the Law] Reference

This qualification is important if spurious non-causal dependences are to be ruled out.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Perhaps; but it is very hard to see what this supposed non-causal explanation could be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Realism] Reference

Feedback cannot create cause to lag effect unless it is a non-causal or acausal system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #7 « Climate Audit] Reference

The issue of “causal” versus “non-causal” filtering is subtler than you suggest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit] Reference

Nature is not non-causal, though it is very easy to build non-causal relationships in software.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC and Data Access « Climate Audit] Reference

To reduce their dopamine activation is to win the war against subscribers of non-causal beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mailbag Monday: Edition "Religion is dopaminergic."] Reference

All you have to do is re-index the output data stream and even a simple FIR filter is non-causal.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC and Data Access « Climate Audit] Reference

We cannot simply decide, for example, to begin thinking about the world in completely non-causal terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relativism] Reference

Mann solved this by using a zero-phase filter, which is non-causal for anyone that wants to investigate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson et al 2007 « Climate Audit] Reference

It is indeed not open to dispute that at least two non-causal factors limit the extent of legal responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation in the Law] Reference

Here we use a non-causal filter, because it produces a better estimate of the true velocity at each time instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit] Reference

In order for cause to precede effect, a non-causal system is required i.e. current output relies on future inputs.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC and Data Access « Climate Audit] Reference

Seems to me that there are too many non-causal events, visions, coincidences, predictions, proclaimed destinies etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battlestar Galactica: Interim Reflections « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS] Reference

So I would argue that the use of non-causal filters for after-the-fact reconstructions is not necessarily incorrect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit] Reference

Combine non-causal filtering with extrapolation of data, add uncertainties from original unsmoothed reconstructions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #11 « Climate Audit] Reference

Price and Menzies provide no reason to believe that this notion of resemblance can be characterized in non-causal terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

Posted Mar 30, 2007 at 1:33 PM | Permalink | Reply though it is very easy to build non-causal relationships in software.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPCC and Data Access « Climate Audit] Reference

Any non-causal explanation of reliability is incompatible with the language - and mind-independence of mathematical objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Realism] Reference

If filtering is called for a separate issue, non-causal filtering can be perfectly valid for an after-the-fact reconstruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit] Reference

Of course, any statistical analysis should go back to the raw data rather than using these “non-causal” smoother estimates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mannomatic Smoothing and Pinned End-points « Climate Audit] Reference

Fs and the Gs is explained by the fact that the number of Fs = the number of Gs (non-causal, conceptual or essential explanation).    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts] Reference

However, the price of such a reformulation is that we lose the possibility of a reduction of causal claims to claims that are non-causal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

It was difficult, moreover, to find a reasonably clear account of what sort of non-causal explanation the neo-Wittgensteinians had in mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Action] Reference

One might say that actions on the subatomic plane respond extremely readily to the non-causal push of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews] Reference

I take that as fairly solid evidence that our representation of events as causal or non-causal is genuinely perceptual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference

The correlational design of this study does not allow us to rule out a variety of non-causal explanations for the associations found.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference