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1. Physics and Astronomy › Complex Systems and Dynamics

   Quantifying causal emergence shows that macro can beat micro

   Hoel, Albantakis and Tononi · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013

   The authors build causal models of simple systems at micro and macro scales, measure causal effectiveness with effective information, and propose quantifying causal emergence as a macro model superseding a micro one.

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   1. Supported · 71%In the paper's example systems, a macro-level description can score higher on effective information than the micro-level one, though micro mechanisms fully fix it.“Although in the example systems the macro mechanisms are completely specified by their underlying micro mechanisms, EI can nevertheless peak at a macro spatiotemporal scale.”