Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Causality — causation and the structure of causal relations — causal order, definite and indefinite, and its combinatorics, topology and geometry; sheaf- and process-theoretic accounts of causality; causal models, causal inference and interventionist accounts of what a causal relation is; and the metaphysics of causation — exclusion, mental causation, causal emergence and closure, reciprocal causation (ADR-035).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERM-039 | measurement context, as the elicitation protocol that enters the response and not the situation | The third of the three roles that “frame” was split into at A125 §1, after the communicative situation (TERM-030) and the framing intervention (TERM-018): the conditions under which a judgement is elicited. In A129 §1’s model it enters the judgement, not the interpreter’s state. It appears five times, so it gets a code. Its name collides with TERM-031’s. | Active |
| TERM-057 | transfer entropy: how much the last l values of a source reduce uncertainty about a target’s next value beyond the target’s own last k values, I(X_{t+1}; Y_t^{(l)} | X_t^{(k)}), a directed predictive quantity that depends on k, l and any conditioning series, not a measure of information flow and not an intervention effect | The record names transfer entropy in its readings of Granger causality, causal emergence, colloid dynamics, IIT and the global workspace, and the documents use different history conventions (NOTE-053’s k-histories, NOTE-788’s single target value at lag τ). This fixes the word from Schreiber (NOTE-940), with the history lengths explicit, and says what it must not be confused with: flow (CLAIM-335), directed information, time-delayed mutual information, interventional flow and Granger causality. | Active |
| TERM-058 | Granger causality: the past of one series improving the prediction of another’s next value beyond the past of everything else in a stated information set, a predictive relation relative to that set and its lags, and not by itself the effect of an intervention | The record names Granger causality in its readings of transfer entropy (NOTE-053), causal emergence (NOTE-010, NOTE-726, NOTE-791) and IIT (NOTE-122), always through other authors. This fixes the word: relative to an information set, predictive, and interventional only under the conditions of THEORY-704. Defined from Barnett, Barrett and Seth, Seth, and Eichler and Didelez; Granger (1969) itself is Unavailable. | Active |
| TERM-067 v4 | governance-response profile, of a state for a declared family of interventions on the mechanisms that govern efficacy: the tuple of its response kernels, J_I(s) = (K_i(· | s))_{i∈I} with K_i(y | s) = P(Y^(i) = y | S = s); a description is governance-response sufficient for (I, Y) when the profile factors through it | Defined at A15 §2, A16 §4 and A17 §4.1 of the exchange of 2026-10-20, and reused at A18 and A23. A15 called sufficiency for it “a direct application of the factorization criterion [CLAIM-350], not an independently established new theorem”; A16 §14 “a governance-specific causal preservation test, not necessarily a wholly independent kind of fidelity”. It is not TERM-043’s causal component with the identity correspondence, as this entry first said: that component compares interventional laws, and is zero for a coarse-graining that loses the response of every state (CLAIM-399). It is a fixed-target, state-conditional sufficiency. Adopted by the owner on 2026-10-21. It names what CLAIM-407 is stated in; it replaces nothing. | Active |