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Claim that multiscale organisation produces complex patterns via clique-based local coherence
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extracted_from(2025) · Francesco Sacco · Dalton A R Sakthivadivel · Michael Levin
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- Condition for hierarchical order with locally coherent but globally varying phases
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- Causal emergence in biological systemsmembers_ofExamines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
- How graph topology and hierarchical interaction patterns enable or prevent phase transitions and ordered states, from statistical mechanics to biological organization.
- Statistical mechanics of clique-structured graphs linking domain walls, free energy, and biological multiscale coherence.
- How nested hierarchies enable local coherence and global complexity through spatial ordering and subordination principles.
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