Or, maybe it really all depends on consciousness.
It all depends on if someone is watching.

A quote, i don't remember who

Out in the dark empty spots in space, God does whatever he wants.

I find causality is completely backwards.
How does a body heal? Because it is healed in the future, and that existence spans backwards to the now defining the path forward.

The clouds do not cause the rain.
The evaporation does not cause the rain
The sun does not cause the rain.
The tree being watered, the tree needing water, causes the rain.
And it stretches back through time to cause the evaporation and the congealing and the electrical structure that causes the lightning that dumps the water...