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THE MAIN PAPER. “Greater than the parts: A review of the information decomposition approach to causal emergence,” By Pedro A.M. Mediano, et al. (Universities of Cambridge, London, Sussex, Tokyo, Toronto and San Francisco). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

Food as art at Noma in Girona. View in LinkedIn

“THE BRAIN is, basically speaking, a predictive machine, designed to reduce environmental incertitude.” https://lnkd.in/eiz2uZmG View in LinkedIn

THE ONE REALITY. “The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality." (By Professor David Deutsch, FRS, of Oxford University). https://lnkd.in/ePyNfgEh View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends on the theme of emergence. Emergence is one of the most powerful new ideas in science, as well as one of the most mysterious. It is certain that we are a long way from grasping it fully at a mechanistic level. Thus we are reduced at this point to fully describing its manifestations. https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

ROOTS. “Information theory is deeply rooted in probability theory, to the extent that the axiomatic bases of both are formally equivalent. Both approaches, in turn, are illuminated by the seminal work of E.T. Jaynes on the foundations of thermodynamics, which proposes that probability theory can be understood as an extension of Aristotelian logic that applies to scenarios of partial or incomplete knowledge.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

MEREOLOGY. In contrast with other proposals, this approach is primarily mereological: emergence is considered to be a property of part-whole relationships within a system, which depends on the relationship between the dynamics of parts of the system and macroscopic features of interest.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

NEW APPROACH. “This article presents an overview of a recently proposed formal theory of causal emergence based on the frame-work of Partial Information Decomposition (PID).” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

SCIENTIFIC METHOD. “Moreover, having a formal theory of emergence will allow scientists to formulate rigorous, falsifiable conjectures about emergence in different scenarios and test them on data.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

BETTER NEW THEORY. “It is related to the fact that galaxies and clusters have very different length scales. In the presence of gravity, the temperature is not constant in space at equilibrium.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn