In philosophy, downward causation is a causal relationship from higher levels of a system to lower-level parts of that system: for example, mental events...
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Complex system approach to peace and armed conflict (section Emergence, self-organization and downward causation)
includes the existence of emergence and self-organization, as well as downward causation in which the small-scale, apparently unconstrained processes are together...
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Brain". In Murphy, Nancy; Ellis, George; O'Connor, Timothy (eds.). Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. New York: Springer. Bibcode:2009dcnf...
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the social causation theory, which posits that socioeconomic inequality causes stress that gives rise to mental illness, and the downward drift approach...
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in human culture". Journal of Social Issues 28 (3), 21-37. 1974, "Downward causation in hierarchically organised biological systems". In Francisco Jose...
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recognition Speech recognition Supervised learning is a special case of downward causation in biological systems Landform classification using satellite imagery...
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its treatment of causality, particularly the concept of downward causation. Downward causation refers to the influence that higher-level properties can...
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faced with the highly implausible consequence that every case of downward causation involves overdetermination (since P remains a cause of P∗ as well)...
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(philosophy) Cognitive neuroscience Connectionism Consciousness in animals Downward causation Descartes' Error Embodied cognition Existentialism Explanatory gap...
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original on 1 July 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2007.. Murphy, Nancy (2009). Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will. Springer. ISBN 978-3642032042....
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Divine Action; (with G.F.R. Ellis and T. O'Connor, Springer, 2009) Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will, Springer; and (with W. R. Stoeger...
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Child Development and Care, 1988 Lewis, M.D. "The slippery slope of downward causation", Human Development, 2011 Lewis, M.D. "Self-organizing brains don't...
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Circular cumulative causation is a theory developed by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal who applied it systematically for the first time in 1944 (Myrdal...
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entities, and parents are composed at least partly by their children. Downward causation refers to the effect that the incorporation of entity x into a higher-level...
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He points out that there are many examples of feedback loops and "downward causation" in biology, and that it is not reasonable to privilege one level...
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2019. Eronen, Markus I. (December 2013). "No levels, no problems: downward causation in neuroscience" (PDF). Philosophy of Science. 80 (5): 1042–1052....
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existence of such beings. Functionalism (philosophy of mind) Emergentism Downward causation Nominalism Multiple realizability Horgan, Terry (1993) "From supervenience...
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Social mobility (redirect from Downward Mobility)
achieved status characteristics in a society. The movement can be in a downward or upward direction. Markers for social mobility such as education and...
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Bias in the introduction of variation (section Direct evidence of causation under controlled conditions)
during certain stages of epigenesis; (2) that the system determines by downward causation which genomic constituents are stored in unexpressed form versus those...
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critiques of claims for the emergence of chemistry and the existence of downward causation. In addition to historical and philosophical work Scerri has published...
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internal relations -- Donald Davidson (philosopher) -- Dorothy Emmet -- Downward causation -- Dualistic cosmology -- Duns Scotus -- Duration (Bergson) -- Dynamism...
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of Artificial Life, Princeton University Press, (ISBN 0691029032) Downward Causation: Minds, Bodies and Matter by Peter Bogh Andersen, Claus Emmeche, Niels...
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attainment. The drift hypothesis is the opposing theory of the social causation thesis, which says being in a lower social class is a contributor to the...
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Pratītyasamutpāda (redirect from Twelvefold chain of causation)
Dependent origination can be contrasted with the classic Western concept of causation in which an action by one thing is said to cause a change in another thing...
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biological sciences. Major areas of epidemiological study include disease causation, transmission, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, environmental...
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question of mental causation, in particular the proposition that mental events (and information in general, as in genetics) can be downwardly causal even though...
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Counterfactual thinking (section Upward and downward)
beneficial effects. There are two types of counterfactual thoughts: downward and upward. Downward counterfactuals are thoughts about how the situation could have...
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rate raises real GDP. This explains the downward slope of the IS curve. In summary, the IS curve shows the causation from interest rates to planned fixed...
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follows a path that is curved downward. According to Newton's second law, this change in flow direction requires a downward force applied to the air by...
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breathing, suggesting that the diaphragm is not implicated directly in the causation of ETAP. Some have proposed that this abdominal pain may be caused by...
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