Pub Date : 2023-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s11406-023-00684-3
Javier Sánchez-Cañizares
Abstract In a recent work (Grasso et al., 2021), practitioners of the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) claim to have overcome the weaknesses of causal reductionism in producing a coherent account of causation, as causal reductionism would blatantly conflate causation with prediction and could not answer the question of ‘what caused what.’ In this paper, I reject such a dismissal of causal reductionism since IIT anti-reductionists misunderstand the reductionist stance. The reductionists can still invoke a causal account stemming from the causal power of the universe’s basic units and interactions that, eventually, may lead to structures supporting integrated information. Additionally, I claim that the IIT-inspired misunderstanding of causal reductionism originates from the former’s metaphysical deficit, conflating information with causation. However, as a possible way out, if IIT is complemented with a deeper metaphysical ground, such as nested hylomorphism, an improved argument against causal reductionism can be made to work by invoking formal causality as the ultimate cause of integration in natural systems.
在最近的一项工作(Grasso et al.， 2021)中，集成信息论(Integrated Information Theory, IIT)的实践者声称，他们已经克服了因果还原论在产生连贯因果关系方面的弱点，因为因果还原论会公然将因果关系与预测混为一谈，并且无法回答“什么导致了什么”的问题。在本文中，我反对这种对因果还原论的驳斥，因为IIT的反还原论误解了还原论的立场。还原论者仍然可以援引宇宙基本单位和相互作用的因果力量，最终可能导致支持综合信息的结构的因果解释。此外，我认为iit引发的对因果还原论的误解源于前者的形而上学缺陷，将信息与因果关系混为一谈。然而，作为一种可能的出路，如果IIT与更深层次的形而上学基础相辅相成，比如嵌套同态，一个反对因果还原论的改进论点可以通过调用形式因果关系作为自然系统整合的最终原因而发挥作用。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1007/s11406-023-00681-6
Marie van Loon
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s11406-023-00672-7
James Pattison
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