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    It is not the case that In Mellor's G&H world with equally distributed chains, there can be no causal relationship between the individual b and the individual a.

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    • 1.In Mellor's G&H world, the number of G-chains and H-chains is equal, making the probabilities equal.
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    • 2.When the occurrence of a or not-a happens under exactly the same circumstances given b, no causal relationship between individual b and individual a can be established.
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    • 1.Causation requires that the cause make a difference to the effect, as Mackie's INUS condition and Lewis's counterfactual analysis both demand.
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    • 2.In the equally distributed G&H world, b makes no probabilistic difference to a, since P(a|b) = P(a|¬b) holds symmetrically across chain types.
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    • 3.A factor that is statistically and counterfactually inert with respect to an outcome cannot be its cause, regardless of any token-level narrative connecting them.
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    • 1.Salmon's mark transmission theory requires that a causal process transmit a conserved quantity or mark continuously from cause to effect along a single spatiotemporal path.
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    • 2.In Mellor's equally distributed world, there is no fact of the matter about which chain type connects individual b to individual a, so no determinate causal process is identifiable.
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    • 3.Without a determinate process individuating b's influence on a from the background of equally numerous contrary chains, the token causal relation dissolves into mere correlation.
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