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We formalize this through the causal theory, where different sensing scenes are viewed as distinct interventions on a shared physical system. This perspective reveals two fundamental obstacles: interventional distribution shifts arising from varying acquisition conditions, and confounding biases induced by spurious correlations driven by domain-specific factors. Taking the above considerations into account, we propose CauseHSI, a causality-inspired framework that offers new insights into cross-scene HSI classification. CauseHSI consists of two key components: a Counterfactual Generation Module (CGM) that perturbs domain-specific factors to generate diverse counterfactual variants, simulating cross-domain interventions while preserving semantic consistency, and a Causal Disentanglement Module (CDM) that separates invariant causal semantics from spurious correlations through structured constraints under a structural causal model, ultimately guiding the model to focus on domain-invariant and generalizable representations. By aligning model learning with causal principles, CauseHSI enhances robustness against domain shifts. 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