Information theoretic measures for emergence and causality
Ross H. McKenzie (noreply@blogger.com)
The relationship between emergence and causation is contentious, with a long history. Most discussions are qualitative. Presented with a new system, how does one identify the microscopic and macroscopic scales that may be most useful for understanding and describing the system? Can Judea Pearl’s seminal ideas about causality be implemented practically for understanding emergence?
Broadly speaking, a weakness of discussions of emergence and causality is that it is hard to define these concepts...