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question:how-does-emergent-causality-have-functional-effects-on-the-systemHow does emergent causality have functional effects on the system?
Question about downward causation and mind–body interaction.
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extracted_from(2023) · Bing Yuan · Jiang Zhang · Aobo Lyu · Jiayun Wu +5
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- Downward CausationgatesMechanism by which large-scale organizational patterns override lower-level genetic details; enables planarian robustness despite noisy genome.
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- Cross-fertilization claim made in discussion.
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- Core motivating question addressed by the empirical RL study; identified as major knowledge gap.
- Core concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.
- Open problem stated in §5.4.
- The hypothesis that successful RL agents will display causal emergence that is predictive of final reward early in training and whose representational dynamics align with reward improvement.
- Claim by Comolatti & Hoel (2022) endorsed by this survey.