why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?

[bennyboy]

I didn't see an actual answer to the question in any of that.  Do you have an answer or not?

Yes, my answer is that in a system without any subjective observer, the idea of causation is probably meaningless. Causation requires the discrete separation of QM particles into things, and probably some mechanism which is capable of tracking changes of state over time.

I do not know whether time is a dimension, or how the Universe carries state information from one moment to the other.

I'd say that our explanations about causation always take a narrative form. We think of ourselves, and the objects which we perceive, as being part of a story.

In other words, I'd say before I answer your question, I'd want to look at whether, philosophically speaking, it's the right one.