ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Flickering Emergences: The Question of Locality in Information-Theoretic Approaches to Emergence.
Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Biological detail and graph structure in network neuroscience.Frontiers in network physiology · 2025Review
- Emergence and Causality in Complex Systems: A Survey of Causal Emergence and Related Quantitative Studies.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Generalized decomposition of multivariate information.PloS one · 2024Article
- Partial entropy decomposition reveals higher-order information structures in human brain activity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Decomposing past and future: Integrated information decomposition based on shared probability mass exclusions.PloS one · 2023Article
- Neural Information Squeezer for Causal Emergence.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Untangling Synergistic Effects of Intersecting Social Identities with Partial Information Decomposition.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
"Emergence", the phenomenon where a complex system displays properties, behaviours, or dynamics not trivially reducible to its constituent elements, is one of the defining properties of complex systems. Recently, there has been a concerted effort to formally define emergence using the mathematical framework of information theory, which proposes that emergence can be understood in terms of how the states of wholes and parts collectively disclose information about the system's collective future. In this paper, we show how a common, foundational component of information-theoretic approaches to emergence implies an inherent instability to emergent properties, which we call
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