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concept:final-cause

Final Cause

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  • Formal Causeconcept0.814
  • Key reframing: contextual constraints (both bottom-up and top-down) replace mechanistic causation in explaining action.
  • Closingmethod0.723
    Dynamic condition: ending a branch or closing a frame.
  • Probability that effect would not occur without cause; counterfactual primitive.
  • Final rewardconcept0.720
    The total reward accumulated by an RL agent at the end of training, used as the primary performance metric predicted by early causal emergence.
  • James' test for minimal mentality, cited as describing morphogenesis.
  • The principle that a truly adaptive process cannot have a predetermined end-state; adaptation means changes cannot be foreseen.
  • latent reasoningconcept0.705
    Reasoning approach using learnable hidden embeddings.