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concept:causal-mechanismCausal Mechanism
Function determining the value of a variable based on its causal parents in an acyclic causal model.
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- Whether an internal direction causally controls a target behavior, verified by intervention success
- Traditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.
- The ability of an agent to be a driver of subsequent events; a hallmark of cognition that causal emergence quantifies.
- Chvykov and Hoel's geometric extension of causal emergence to continuous systems using Fisher information.
- A framework the paper uses alongside feature geometry to deepen mechanistic understanding of LMs
- Core concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.
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- The structural-realist grounding for self-evidencing after the bounded self is relinquished.