Greater than the parts: a review of the information decomposition approach to causal emergence

PAM Mediano, FE Rosas, AI Luppi… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Emergence is a profound subject that straddles many scientific disciplines, including the
formation of galaxies and how consciousness arises from the collective activity of neurons …

Emergence and causality in complex systems: A survey of causal emergence and related quantitative studies

B Yuan, J Zhang, A Lyu, J Wu, Z Wang, M Yang, K Liu… - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Emergence and causality are two fundamental concepts for understanding complex
systems. They are interconnected. On one hand, emergence refers to the phenomenon …

Flickering emergences: The question of locality in information-theoretic approaches to emergence

TF Varley - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
“Emergence”, the phenomenon where a complex system displays properties, behaviours, or
dynamics not trivially reducible to its constituent elements, is one of the defining properties of …

Causal emergence is widespread across measures of causation

R Comolatti, E Hoel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.01854, 2022 - arxiv.org
Causal emergence is the theory that macroscales can reduce the noise in causal
relationships, leading to stronger causes at the macroscale. First identified using the …

Emergentist integrated information theory

N Negro - Erkenntnis, 2024 - Springer
The integrated information theory (IIT) is an ambitious theory of consciousness that aims to
provide both a neuroscientific and a metaphysical account of consciousness by identifying …

Is information the other face of causation in biological systems?

SB Yurchenko - BioSystems, 2023 - Elsevier
Is information the other face of causation? This issue cannot be clarified without discussing
how these both are related to physical laws, logic, computation, networks, bio-signaling, and …

Causal emergence: When distortions in a map obscure the territory

F Eberhardt, LL Lee - Philosophies, 2022 - mdpi.com
We provide a critical assessment of the account of causal emergence presented in Erik
Hoel's 2017 article “When the map is better than the territory”. The account integrates causal …

[PDF][PDF] Is information the other face of causation in biological (conscious) systems?

SB Yurchenko - scholar.archive.org
Is information the other face of causation? This issue cannot be clarified without discussing
how these both are related to physical laws, logic, computation, networks, bio-signaling, and …