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How is causation as manipulability "Pearlian"? Pearl's whole point is that it's possible to determine causality without manipulating.
But first you need to know what causality is. While the general idea that "causality is about manipulations" was around before Pearl, he certainly popularized it, and his causal bayesian networks and the do-calculus made it something that could be studied mathematically.