I extend work from Krakauer et al. (2020), who propose a conception of individuality as the capacity to propagate information through time. From this conception, they develop information-theoretic measures. I identify several shortcomings with these measures—in particular, that they are associative rather than causal. I rectify this shortcoming by deriving a causal information-theoretic measure of individuality. I then illustrate how this measure can be implemented and extended in the context of evolutionary transitions in individuality.

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将因果关系添加到个性的信息论视角中

我扩展了 Krakauer 等人的工作。 （2020），他提出了个性的概念，即随时间传播信息的能力。从这个概念出发，他们开发了信息论措施。我发现了这些措施的几个缺点——特别是它们是关联性的而不是因果性的。我通过推导个体的因果信息理论测量来纠正这个缺点。然后，我将说明如何在个性进化转变的背景下实施和扩展这一措施。