Every event is the cause of some other following event. But this causal event is also an effect of another preceding event. So every event is both a cause and effect. In essence these states sort of cancel each other out. So what are we left with? The determinative vector of the chain of events in itself. The accumulative determinism of all the events is therefore relayed thru those events. Much like how the movement of a boxcar of a train is caused by the preceding boxcar. But in fact the whole train is moving. The movement is simply transmitted thru the boxcars. That each one is moved by the previous one is a trivial and unhelpful explanation for each boxcar's movement. That the whole train is moving is a better more accurate description of the actual situation. Likewise, that every event is caused by a preceding event and causes a following event is simply a fictive abstraction from the whole continuous process of determinative happening. Every event is but one link in a whole process. There are no discrete causes or discrete effects.
It may be objected that the determinative process is itself causal. But it wouldn't make much sense to say the train is causing its box cars to move. The boxcars make up the train, so when it moves ofcourse they move. Hence a process doesn't really cause its components to act. It IS the components acting, as one continuous temporal whole.
It may be objected that the determinative process is itself causal. But it wouldn't make much sense to say the train is causing its box cars to move. The boxcars make up the train, so when it moves ofcourse they move. Hence a process doesn't really cause its components to act. It IS the components acting, as one continuous temporal whole.