Full Idea
It is tempting to see the concept of causation as a product of reason rather than of perception or introspection; something that reason brings to bear on the data of sense, by way of imposing an explanatory order on them.
Gist of Idea
Maybe causation is a form of rational explanation, not an observation or a state of mind
Source
Michael Lockwood (Mind, Brain and the Quantum [1989], p.154)
Book Reference
Lockwood,Michael: 'Mind,Brain and the Quantum:The Compound 'I'' [Blackwell 1991], p.154