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How Organisms Gained Causal Independence and How It Might Be Quantified.

Keith Douglas Farnsworth
Published in: Biology (2018)
organisms are cybernetic phenomena whose identity is created by the information structure of the highest level of causal closure (maximum N), which has increased through evolution, leading to increased causal independence, which might be quantifiable by ‘Integrated Information Theory’ measures.
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