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cs.IT2021
Emergence as the conversion of information: A unifying theory
Thomas Varley, Erik Hoel
Is reduction always a good scientific strategy? Does it always lead to a gain in information? The very existence of the special sciences above and beyond physics seems to hint no.…
cs.IT2020★ 11 cited
Causal Geometry
Pavel Chvykov, Erik Hoel
Information geometry has offered a way to formally study the efficacy of scientific models by quantifying the impact of model parameters on the predicted effects. However, there ha…
cs.IT2016★ 99 cited
When the map is better than the territory
Erik P Hoel
The causal structure of any system can be analyzed at a multitude of spatial and temporal scales. It has long been thought that while higher scale (macro) descriptions of causal st…