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Chapter 6 explores whether information-theoretic models (Dretske) can ground action causation; concludes they cannot dissolve equivocation problem.
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- Information Theoryrelated_toFramework treating phenomena as information flows and exchanges; adopted by Friedman and others to model design as informational process.
- Causal Theories of ActioncontradictsTraditional mechanistic accounts (Danto, Chisholm, Goldman) that Juarrero critiques as resting on outdated Newtonian causality.
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- Information theory offers a language to characterize such entities and synergies between them.claim0.827Claim that information-theoretic measures are suitable to model self and agency.
- Mathematical theory of communication and information capacity; Sloman argues Schrödinger anticipated its relevance for genetic coding.
- Formal framework by Krakauer et al. (2020) for defining an individual based on information theory.
- Formal mathematical framework (Bialek, Tononi, etc.) proposed to characterize autonomous agents and synergies between them.
- Tononi et al. framework quantifying consciousness via integration; provides mathematical tools for measuring agent complexity.
- Classical quantitative theory of information; paper seeks to reconcile with qualitative domain-theoretic approaches.
- Changing configuration to sample environment differently; minimizes free energy.
- Proposed theoretical framework combining qualitative and quantitative aspects of information, with explicit treatment of processes and information flow; central organizing concept for the paper.