Final omments on discussion submitted by anonymous Referee #2 for manuscript entitled 'Dynamics of finite causal processes'

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Reviewer #2: I strongly sympathize with the research questions that motivated this study, because they are extremely relevant and timely in general physics and in earth system dynamics in particular. The author takes a bold approach to causality that, at ïňĄrst sight, intuitively makes a lot of sense in view of open philosophical discussions that have been going on for a long time. Submission of this article to ESD was encouraged by enthusiastic aims and scopes of this journal. Reviewer #2: In my opinion, the fundamental problems are that the theoretical bases are far from being consolidated and the mathematical formulation is far from being fully matured.