ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Causal structure

Causal structure is like a map that helps us figure out how different things are connected and how they might affect each other. For example, if something changes in one place, it might cause something else to happen somewhere else. Imagine a soccer team. Changing one player on the team would have an effect on what the team does as a whole. That's a type of causal structure – the change in one player causes a change to the whole team.