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finding:causal-emergence-depends-on-the-coarse-graining-strategy-different-partitions-of-the-same-boolean-network-yield-ei-values-1-55-emergence-vs-0-18-degradationCausal emergence depends on the coarse-graining strategy: different partitions of the same boolean network yield EI values 1.55 (emergence) vs 0.18 (degradation).
Example from Hoel et al. (2013) replicated in the survey.
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extracted_from(2023) · Bing Yuan · Jiang Zhang · Aobo Lyu · Jiayun Wu +5
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- Claim by Comolatti & Hoel (2022) endorsed by this survey.
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- Causal emergence in biological systemsmembers_ofExamines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
- Causal emergence in learning agentsmembers_ofUses effective information (EI) and coarse-graining to link causal emergence with RL and biological learning.
- Framework measuring how coarse-grained causal structure increases during learning across biological and artificial agents, using effective information and interventional methods.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Finding from Klein & Hoel (2020) on real network analysis.
- Core definition from §1.
- Assertion that the correlation between causal emergence and learning constitutes another way biological and artificial intelligences converge.
- Causal emergence measured by NIS+ increases with observational noise but decreases with dynamical noise.finding0.809Insight that coarse-graining filters external noise but not intrinsic noise.
- Representational dynamics of causal emergence align with reward improvement in most tasks.finding0.799The trajectory of causal emergence through training mirrors the reward improvement curve across the majority of tested environments.
- Authors' interpretive assertion that the observed alignment reveals a novel organizing principle of neural representation dynamics.
- Cross-fertilization claim made in discussion.
- Prior empirical observation from biological systems; motivates investigation in artificial agents.