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1. Physics and Astronomy › Complex Systems and Dynamics

   Causal Composition: Structural Differences among Dynamically Equivalent Systems

   Albantakis and Tononi · Entropy · 2019

   Using small reversible discrete systems, the paper argues that systems with equivalent global dynamics can still differ in causal composition, which may affect their capacity for autonomy, agency and phenomenology.

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   1. Supported · 71%In small reversible systems, global dynamical and information capacities can be maximal while internal subsets differ in the information they specify about each other.“We show that the global dynamical and information-theoretic capacities of reversible systems can be maximal even though they may differ, quantitatively and qualitatively, in the information that their various subsets specify about each other (intrinsic information). This can be the case even for a…”