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Toy Models of Top Down Causation (1909.12739v2)
Published 27 Sep 2019 in quant-ph and nlin.CG
Abstract: Models in which causation arises from higher level structures as well as from microdynamics may be relevant to unifying quantum theory with classical physics or general relativity. They also give a way of defining a form of panprotopsychist property dualism, in which consciousness and material physics causally affect one another. I describe toy models based on probabilistic cellular automata that illustrate possibilities and difficulties with these ideas.
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