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The cause-effect information is defined as the smaller (minimum) of the cause-information and the effect-information. If either one is zero, the cause-effect information is likewise zero. That is, the mechanism's past must be able to determine its present, which, in turn, must be able to determine its future. The more the past and the future are specified by the present state, the higher the mechanism's cause-effect power.
Note that this usage of 'information' is very different from its customar
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― The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
― The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
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One who indulged in a random walk around campus was likely to spot approximately 117.23 times as many peacocks as dames – this constant was christened the 'coefficient of male frustration'.
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― The Four-Year Transform: A Campus Comedy
― The Four-Year Transform: A Campus Comedy
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