Abstrak
A world governed by time-symmetric physical laws appears, at first sight, hostile to any primitive direction of causation. If the fundamental equations do not privilege past over future, the familiar order in which causes precede their effects cannot simply be assumed as a metaphysical given. This paper argues that causal asymmetry is best understood not as a fundamental feature added to the physical structure of the world, but as an emergent pattern grounded in thermodynamic asymmetry. The central claim is that entropy supplies the background conditions under which causal direction becomes intelligible: records preserve traces of lower-entropy conditions, interventions operate within macroscopic gradients, and explanatory practices depend upon stable asymmetries between accessible pasts and open futures. On this view, causation is neither eliminated nor reduced to a mere psychological projection. It remains real at the macroscopic level, while losing its status as a primitive metaphysical relation. By reconstructing causal order from entropic structure, the paper offers a middle position between causal fundamentalism and eliminativist reduction. The arrow of causation does not stand apart from the thermodynamic arrow; is carved from the same physical asymmetry that makes temporal orientation, memory, and intervention possible.