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SUMMARY:An Overlooked Challenge for the “Emergent Multi-Scale Causality
 ” Framework for Modelling Complex Systems. A Brief Philosophical Note - 
 Oriol Roca-Martín
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DESCRIPTION:Various research strands have converged around a set of closel
 y connected ideas that make similar use of information-theoretic and compu
 tational complexity principles to account for and formally model emergence
  and causality across different scales\; what I will call here the emergen
 t multi-scale causality (eMSC) approaches. The framework is gaining popula
 rity—e.g.\, notions such as "causal emergence" and "synergistic informat
 ion" in science\, and some prominent versions of ontic structural realism 
 in philosophy. However\, it has been noted by numerous authors that the me
 thodological and metaphysical considerations that explicitly and implicitl
 y underlie the modelling decisions of the framework remain unclear. In thi
 s context of concerns\, after characterizing the core principles of eMSC\,
  this article argues that the realist stance of the framework towards effe
 ctive theories and their taxonomies is problematic. The main point is that
 \, eMSC's strategy towards scientific realism has to be defended on two fr
 onts\, a local one and a global one\, but the tools that the framework use
 s and develops can only focus on the local front\, overlooking the global 
 one. And this is something that allows for a multiplicity and relativity o
 f ontologies that the realist stance of the framework wants to prima facie
  avoid. eMSC has two options (which can be combined). First\, defend and/o
 r develop a version of scientific realism that could be squared with a cer
 tain degree of multiplicity and relativity of ontologies.  Second\, explor
 e some research avenues coming from the broader computational modelling fi
 eld. By raising these concerns\, some possible extensions for eMSC are not
 iced\, while at the same time\, those computational modelling research ave
 nues are connected with the genuine philosophical questions that eMSC is c
 oncerned about.
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URL:https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/talk/EV9QNH/
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