<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">There is a new preprint paper from Erik Hoel about what he calls "Causal emergence"</div><div dir="auto">https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01854</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is an extension of his earlier work published here in PNAS about the same topic</div><div dir="auto">https://www.pnas.org/content/110/49/19790</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What do you think of it? On first sight he seems to model that aggregates of parts (for instance neurons) can influence other aggregates, which seems rather obvious to me, or do I miss something? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>