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concept:downward-causationDownward Causation
Mechanism by which large-scale organizational patterns override lower-level genetic details; enables planarian robustness despite noisy genome.
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Papers (1)
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Thinkers (2)
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- Giovanni Pezzuloassociated_with
- Sergey YurchenkocontradictsProposed causal equivalence principle distinguishing cause and reason.
Claims (1)
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- Rosas's claim endorsed by this survey.
Concepts (4)
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- Top-down Causationrelated_toHow higher organizational levels constrain and facilitate the behavior of parts by deforming their energy landscapes.
- Causal Emergenceassociated_withCore concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.
- Epistemic VulnerabilityextendsInherent unreliability of biological substrate due to mutation, aging, cancer, parasites; proposed as driver of adaptive cognitive architecture.
- Supervenienceassociated_withPhilosophical principle that higher-level properties are determined by lower-level properties; particles entail collective characters
Questions (1)
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- Question about downward causation and mind–body interaction.
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- Classic objection to causal theories of action; Juarrero dissolves it by treating intentions as semantic constraints that immediately guide motor dynamics.