• 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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  • interactions of neurons. The parallels between downward causation in formal systems and downward causation in brains are explored by Theodor Nenu (2022)...
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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    recognition Speech recognition Supervised learning is a special case of downward causation in biological systems Landform classification using satellite imagery...
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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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  • 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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    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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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    existence of such beings. Functionalism (philosophy of mind) Emergentism Downward causation Nominalism Multiple realizability Horgan, Terry (1993) "From supervenience...
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  • 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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  • internal relations -- Donald Davidson (philosopher) -- Dorothy Emmet -- Downward causation -- Dualistic cosmology -- Duns Scotus -- Duration (Bergson) -- Dynamism...
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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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    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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    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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    biological sciences. Major areas of epidemiological study include disease causation, transmission, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance, environmental...
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    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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    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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  • 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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  • not be the variable behind this stereotype because correlation is not causation. Like all other humans, Asians also like other arts such as Painting and...
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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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