On causality creation driving the world’s development of agency, brain, and mind: Conceptual and formal analysis

This paper contributes a conceptual and formal (philosophical) analysis of how causal pathways created by the world drive the development of several types of agency and various causal pathways within agents, for example, those constituting brains and minds. More specifically, it is analysed how especially in context-dense environments the world continuously creates causality in the form of new causal pathways and changes existing ones, which provides a dynamic and adaptive concept of (contextual, embedded) causality. Moreover, it is analysed how such created causal pathways form the basis for the creation of various types of agency by the world, including human agency with its brains and minds. The considered perspective is conceptually based on universal causality structures that also serve as convergence points for evolutionary processes, thus explaining, for example, the phenomenon of convergent evolution describing similar structures that are created via independent evolutionary pathways. These universal causality structures are formalised mathematically by the new concept of temporal causality algebra based on the area of (many-sorted) universal algebra within mathematics.