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- Creation of qualitatively new properties at higher organizational level; requires non-linear fitness interactions.
- An AI development approach where no explicit theory of intelligence is implemented, allowing intelligence to emerge.
- Core definition from §1.
- The standard 'it just happens' account of surprising complex outcomes that the paper argues is a research-stopping, defeatist move.
- Core concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.
- Load-bearing definition from the abstract.
- Bedau's tripartite classification: nominal (pattern), weak (computationally irreducible), strong (irreducible downward causation).
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