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Yuan 2023 Emergence and Causality in Complex Systems: A Survey

This review paper surveys quantitative theories of causal emergence and their connections to machine learning.

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Thinkers (33)

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  • Anil Seth
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  • Developer of integrated information theory; provides formal tools for measuring integration and consciousness in systems.
  • Judea Pearl
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    Developed causal graph models and the do-operator, foundational to modern causal inference.
  • Erik Hoel
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    Author of 'The Overfitted Brain'; Johnson references Hoel's framework of energy, information, and uncertainty as equivalent conserved quantities.
  • Jiang Zhang
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  • Mingzhe Yang
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  • Aobo Lyu
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  • Bing Yuan
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  • Co-author studying perception and emergence in populations of interacting agents; bridges perception and collective dynamics.
  • Jiayun Wu
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  • Co-author with Hoel and Tononi on quantitative causal emergence.
  • Muyun Mou
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  • Peng Cui
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  • Zhipeng Wang
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  • Developed the φID framework for causal emergence and downward causation.
  • Joe Dewhurst
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    Critiqued Hoel's causal emergence as epistemological rather than ontological.
  • Kaiwei Liu
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  • Formulated weak emergence theory and classifications (nominal, weak, strong).
  • Co-developed the partial information decomposition (PID) framework.
  • Co-developed causal geometry with Erik Hoel.
  • Co-developed PID with Williams.
  • Proposed causal equivalence principle distinguishing cause and reason.
  • Anand Swain
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    Applied EI to ant colony task allocation.

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  • Core measure of causal effect in Hoel's theory; mutual information between uniform input and output distributions.