A reframed landscape of causal emergence.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101476 and PMC identifier 12827734.
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Abstract
Complex systems can often be analyzed at either the microscale of their individual components or the macroscale of their collective organization, yet it remains debated which level of description offers the most meaningful causal understanding. Hoel's recent study in <i>Patterns</i> addresses this challenge by introducing Causal Emergence 2.0, a novel formalization showing that a system's causal workings are best described by how causal influence is distributed across its hierarchy of scales.