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SUBMITTER: Rosas FE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7833221 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS computational biology 20201221 12
The broad concept of emergence is instrumental in various of the most challenging open scientific questions-yet, few quantitative theories of what constitutes emergent phenomena have been proposed. This article introduces a formal theory of causal emergence in multivariate systems, which studies the relationship between the dynamics of parts of a system and macroscopic features of interest. Our theory provides a quantitative definition of downward causation, and introduces a complementary modali ...[more]