Causal power

The ability of an agent to be a driver of subsequent events; a hallmark of cognition that causal emergence quantifies.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Agent Causal Power
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Fundamental property: ability of agents to exert causal influence and be drivers of subsequent events; key to cognition.
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 regularitiesconcept0.827
The structural-realist grounding for self-evidencing after the bounded self is relinquished.
Causal Mechanismconcept0.819
Function determining the value of a variable based on its causal parents in an acyclic causal model.
Causal abstractionconcept0.817
A framework the paper uses alongside feature geometry to deepen mechanistic understanding of LMs
Causal Invarianceconcept0.805
Property that causal mechanisms remain stable across environments; desirable for OOD.
Causal Tracingconcept0.804
Mechanistic interpretability technique for locating factual associations, mentioned as future work direction.
Causal Equivalence Principleconcept0.799
Yurchenko's principle that all intra-level causations are equivalent and cross-level ones are reasons.
Causal importanceconcept0.798
A measure of whether a subcomponent is necessary to reproduce model behavior on a specific prompt, predicted by the causal importance network.
Powerconcept0.795