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Circular Causation, Circular Cognition: A Tour Around Some Common Confusions
Artificial Life ( IF 2.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 , DOI: 10.1162/artl_a_00300
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Life and cognition are inherently circular dynamical processes, and people have difficulty understanding circular causation. I give case studies illustrating some resulting confusions, and propose that the problems may lie in failing to properly distinguish between similar concepts used to describe both local and global features of a system. I analyze how explanations in terms of circular causation work and how they rely on principles of normal settlement. Even though they typically will not explain the origins of phenomena (that is the province of linear causal explanation), circular explanations have predictive power for any persisting (i.e., stable or metastable) phenomena.

中文翻译:

循环因果关系,循环认知:一些常见困惑之旅

生命和认知本质上是循环的动力过程,人们很难理解循环的因果关系。我给出了一些案例研究,说明了一些由此产生的混淆,并提出问题可能在于未能正确区分用于描述系统局部和全局特征的相似概念。我分析了循环因果关系的解释如何起作用以及它们如何依赖正常解决的原则。尽管它们通常不会解释现象的起源(即线性因果解释的范畴),但循环解释对任何持续存在(即稳定或亚稳定)的现象具有预测能力。
更新日期:2019-11-01
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