Humans have evolved a distinct ‘direction’ and “motion” of time, based on abrahamic (christian, jew, muslim) indoctrination. There is the “past, present, and future”. The past is set in stone. You “cannot change the past”. Thus the past is immutable. The present is changing now. And the future is even more chaotic and unpredictable, representing the highest amount of change and fluctuation. So to put it simply, this ‘linear’ notion of time is as follows: past is least changing (absolutely still) versus future which is most changing (absolutely random).
Thus humanity has imaginations of causes. The causes of the past cannot be changed, thus they are easier to know and accept. Knowledge depends on the past, on past experiences, on memories, etc. Furthermore with abrahamic indoctrination, humans tend to believe that there is some “absolute cause, absolute beginning” of the universe and everything. Modern liberal-leftists call it the “Big Bang Theory” which is a copy, a secularized form (Newspeak) of Catholicism. Catholicism is built on universalism, the ideal that “all begins from one thing”, or “All begins from God”, or simply “God caused all to exist”, Creationism.
Creationism and “The Big Bang Theory” are the same thing.
Humans are simple animals and require simplifications of complex phenomenon, even if it’s false, or especially if it’s false. Therefore it doesn’t really matter, to anybody, that the universe has a beginning or First Cause. Instead people have an instinct to feel safe and secure. And because of this instinct (to cling to safety), people cling to the premise of an absolute cause and order. Thus average people cling to Big Bang Theory or Creationism (same premise). They believe that “the universe must have a cause” otherwise nothing would make sense. This is only half-true. Yes nothing can be made sense of without “first causes”.
But the largest logical and intellectual error is that “all causes lead to a shared beginning”. Or that there must be “One Cause” for everything, the universe, existence.
To some, to most, the fact that much of the past remains ‘unknown’ is deeply unsettling, and they would rather cling to a lie than to explore the aspects of the past (or even the present or future), which are disturbing.
Thus the point I’m making here, is that much of Causality and Causation does revolve around human emotions, and what people would prefer to believe, what is emotionally soothing, rather than premises which directly admit that “we don’t know shit about anything”. Again, it’s deeply unsettling to admit that “we simply don’t know” about primary causes. And because we don’t know much about the past, logically, we won’t know much about the future either.
Any knowledge and predictability of the future directly corresponds with knowledge and memorization of the past. Humanity, or any evolved biology, uses knowledge gained from experience, of the past, to adapt to the present environment, and gamble on future changes to that environment, and other environments.