What is Criterial Causation? youtu.be/NwD80oYZcTM?si… via @YouTube - great short video from Peter Ulric Tse explaining how causation works in the nervous system
@WiringTheBrain @YouTube Top-down criteria are not #causation. They can only #control (constrain), or set the boundary conditions for the dynamics of the collaborative interaction happening on "lower" hierarchical levels. A failure to optimize processes causes the emergence of new "higher" control levels
@Kihbernetics @YouTube I disagree. I think top-down (or collective) constraints absolutely are causes, in the counterfactual sense
@WiringTheBrain "In the absence of a constraint, the cell growth is uncontrolled" is a counterfactual statement. But the cell will still grow "wild", no? The #cause of growth was not removed. In Singer's terminology, there is a bottom-up #producer (cause) and a top-down #coproducer (constraint).
@Kihbernetics I see where you're coming from. But again that's limiting causes to forces - things that physically *induce* action of some sort.