Black-boxing and cause-effect power.

Reductionism assumes that causation in the physical world occurs at the micro level, excluding the emergence of macro-level causation. We challenge this reductionist assumption by employing a principled, well-defined measure of intrinsic cause-effect power-integrated information (Φ), and showing tha...

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Main Authors: William Marshall, Larissa Albantakis, Giulio Tononi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5933815?pdf=render