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claim:causal-emergence-is-widespread-across-measures-of-causation-not-just-eiCausal emergence is widespread across measures of causation, not just EI.
Claim by Comolatti & Hoel (2022) endorsed by this survey.
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extracted_from(2023) · Bing Yuan · Jiang Zhang · Aobo Lyu · Jiayun Wu +5
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- Example from Hoel et al. (2013) replicated in the survey.
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- Causal emergence in biological systemsmembers_ofExamines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
- Causal emergence in learning agentsmembers_ofUses effective information (EI) and coarse-graining to link causal emergence with RL and biological learning.
- Framework measuring how coarse-grained causal structure increases during learning across biological and artificial agents, using effective information and interventional methods.
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- Core definition from §1.
- Cross-fertilization claim made in discussion.
- Causal emergence measured by NIS+ increases with observational noise but decreases with dynamical noise.finding0.822Insight that coarse-graining filters external noise but not intrinsic noise.
- Core concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.
- Philosophical debate discussed in §5.2.
- Quantitative emergence theory based on Markov dynamics and effective information (EI).
- Assertion that the correlation between causal emergence and learning constitutes another way biological and artificial intelligences converge.
- Assertion that understanding causal emergence may lead to methods for manipulating agent representations to improve performance.