Synthesis is the central means/mechanism of reproduction. There's no opposition.If you have to rely on the mechanisms of reproduction (as opposed to synthesis)
Rather, it indicates your misuse of the term - and the others you are throwing around.All the above confirms my position.
You have now eliminated the last shred of possible meaning from your use of that word.But to answer your posit. No, whether you light or do not light the cigarette, if your physician tells you that your addiction will kill you in 3 months, that can be sufficient causality for not lighting that last cigarette.
Bollocks. They'd never reproduce if they did that.but living organisms always strive for survival first.
They don't. They produce things describable using such sequences, often, but no known plant uses numbers at all.Why do so many species of plants use the Fibonacci Sequence in the growth patterns?
Now we have restrictions "causal to" inabilities.A locked room is an external circumstance which is causal to your inability to leave the room.
My point, above, that a convenient simplification or shorthand notion such as "cause" is not useful for careful analysis in these matters, is well illustrated.