论文标题
因果关系如何植根于热力学
How causation is rooted into thermodynamics
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论文摘要
因果关系的观念广泛用于科学中。我讨论了为什么以及如何将它们植入热力学。熵梯度（i）解释了干预措施在哪种意义上影响未来而不是过去，（ii）基于知识主题作为物理系统的时间取向。通过这两个不同的路径，这是这种梯度，只有这种梯度是因果关系的时间取向的来源，即原因是在其效应之前出现的事实。
The notions of cause and effect are widely employed in science. I discuss why and how they are rooted into thermodynamics. The entropy gradient (i) explains in which sense interventions affect the future rather than the past, and (ii) underpins the time orientation of the subject of knowledge as a physical system. Via these two distinct paths, it is this gradient, and only this gradient, the source of the time orientation of causation, namely the fact the cause comes before its effects.
