Causation consists in Constraints.
Therefore, the causal structure of a System is “its spatiotemporal organization combined with the operative constraints” , which “determine the possible behaviors of those [sytems]. That is, they determine modal features – what [they] can and cannot do.Winning & Bechtel (2018), 294
References
- Winning & Bechtel (2018): “Rethinking Causality in Biological and Neural Mechanisms: Constraints and Control”