Patterns, Information, and Causation
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DOI: 10.5840/jphil20171141142
Abstract: This paper articulates an account of causation as a collection of information-theoretic relationships between patterns instantiated in the causal nexus. I draw on Dennett’s account of real patterns to characterize potential causal relata as patterns… read more here.
Keywords: causation; causal relata; causal; patterns information ... See more keywords