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BI 111 Kevin Mitchell and Erik Hoel: Agency, Emergence, Consciousness

Brain Inspired

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The Universal Reductionist Position

Theory of causality is often ignored or seen as non-scientific, but it's actually actively filtered out by the nervous system. There can be some instantaneous trigger that just doesn't capture why the system has structure and meaning. And according to various metrics of ation, they can be higher at this a macro scale. So we have to think of causation not as this purely instantaneous sort of thing that just Doesn't exist.

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