EPISODE · Mar 7, 2026 · 6 MIN
Downward influence across theories
from Emergence Calculus · host Ioannis Tsiokos
Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: We've spent the last few episodes climbing upward — micro builds macro, packaging creates objects, audits keep the books. But here's what's been nagging me. In real systems, the macro level also pushes back. The weather shapes what individual molecules do. A company's policy constrains each employee's choices. How does the framework handle that? Does it need a seventh primitive? Episode at a glanceSeries: Foundations (Six Birds)Theme: Foundations & meta-theoryFormat: Mini-labComplexity: IntermediatePaper: SB Source anchorsSB §12.2 Outlook: forthcoming instantiations (label: sec:outlook)SB §10.3 Downward influence across theories (label: sec:downward-influence)NT §8 A physics dilemma reframed: constraints are not channels (label: sec:physics-dilemma)BC §3 Layers as closures (label: sec:layers-closures)QT §8.4 No-signalling versus conditioning: inference update is not influence
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Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: We've spent the last few episodes climbing upward — micro builds macro, packaging creates objects, audits keep the books. But here's what's been nagging me. In real systems, the macro level also pushes back. The weather shapes what individual molecules do. A company's policy constrains each employee's choices. How does the framework handle that? Does it need a seventh primitive?
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