Agent Causal Power

Fundamental property: ability of agents to exert causal influence and be drivers of subsequent events; key to cognition.

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Causal power
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The ability of an agent to be a driver of subsequent events; a hallmark of cognition that causal emergence quantifies.
Causal Emergence
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Core concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

causal regularitiesconcept0.762
The structural-realist grounding for self-evidencing after the bounded self is relinquished.
Causal Mechanismconcept0.760
Function determining the value of a variable based on its causal parents in an acyclic causal model.
Causal Theories of Actionconcept0.757
Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.
Cognitive Agent (P, Q, U)concept0.756
Triple modeling reality, belief, and update function used to formalize suffering and practice.
Control task for causal evaluationmethod0.753
Adaptation of Hewitt and Liang control tasks to CausalGym: next-token labels replaced with arbitrary tokens to measure method expressivity
Agentconcept0.747
Any autonomous system including living and non-living forms that embodies a perception-action cycle and tries to navigate and persist in an environment
Causal Influence Diagramsframework0.742
Framework informing path-specific objectives by identifying causal chains leading to risky behaviors
Causal abstractionconcept0.742
A framework the paper uses alongside feature geometry to deepen mechanistic understanding of LMs