Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Seminar with Moo Chung (UW-Madison)

Dr. Chung proposes reframing causality within Lagrangian mechanics - causal organization is defined globally through an action functional over all admissible causal paths. Causality emerges as a topological steady state corresponding to a minimum-energy configuration. This view provides a physically interpretable & mathematically principled alternative to DAG-based models, naturally accommodating feedback-dominated & recurrent systems while extending causal inference past acyclic paradigms.