What Caused What? A Quantitative Account of Actual Causation Using Dynamical Causal Networks

Actual causation is concerned with the question: “What caused what?” Consider a transition between two states within a system of interacting elements, such as an artificial neural network, or a biological brain circuit. Which combination of synapses caused the neuron to fire? Whi...

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Main Authors: Larissa Albantakis, William Marshall, Erik Hoel, Giulio Tononi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/5/459