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Top-down causation and emergence: some comments on mechanisms

Both bottom-up and top-down causation occur in the hierarchy of structure and causation. A key feature is multiple realizability of higher level functions, and consequent existence of equivalence classes of lower level variables that correspond to the same higher level state. Five essentially differ...

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Main Author: Ellis, George F. R.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3262299/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23386967
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2011.0062
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