Black-boxing and cause-effect power.
Reductionism assumes that causation in the physical world occurs at the micro level, excluding the emergence of macro-level causation. We challenge this reductionist assumption by employing a principled, well-defined measure of intrinsic cause-effect power-integrated information (Φ), and showing tha...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-04-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5933815?pdf=render |