Name: The Book of Why
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Author: Judea Pearl and Dana MacKenzie

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Chapter 1 The Question That Changed Science

Correlation is not just different from causation - it's a fundamentally weaker kind of knowledge. A computer trained on all human data still cannot an…

Chapter 2 The Ladder of Causation 🔒

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Chapter 3 Causal Diagrams and the Language of Why 🔒

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Chapter 4 Counterfactuals and the Hidden Engine of Thought 🔒

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Chapter 5 Why AI Cannot Answer 'Why' 🔒

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Chapter 6 How to Think Causally Starting Today 🔒

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Chapter 7 We Are the Species That Asks Why 🔒

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The Book of Why

For centuries, science avoided the word 'cause.' Then

Judea Pearl changed everything. This book reveals how a

new science of causality lets us ask not just what

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