My take on it, it's more the causality type of cause. Basically, what comes before and determines what comes after. So when you constantly refashion your present, controlling all possible permutations of it, you also control the future by knowing all of its preceding causes (i.e. the Cause). This way you don't need Logos, thus taking one axiom away from the Dunyain teachings (The Rational Priority Principle, the one that asserts that Logos, or Reason, lies outside the circle of the world, though only in a formal and not an ontological sense, which seems unnecessarily convoluted and contradictory to me personally).