Downward Causation

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  "tags": [],
  "type": "concept",
  "aliases": [
    "pattern completion",
    "hierarchical control",
    "high-level constraint",
    "top-down control",
    "top-down causation"
  ],
  "context": "Mechanism by which large-scale organizational patterns override lower-level genetic details; enables planarian robustness despite noisy genome.",
  "created": "2025-10-21",
  "updated": "2025-10-21",
  "category": "systems",
  "enrichment": {
    "is_stale": true
  },
  "extracted_type": "concept",
  "source_location": "L175-L177"
}