Phase Transitions as Causal Power Shifts: When Systems Rearrange Their Scale of Determinism

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2026-03-09

Phase Transitions as Causal Power Shifts: When Systems Rearrange Their Scale of Determinism

Mechanism: This infographic visualizes a theoretical phase transition where causal power shifts from individual molecular agents to a collective, ordered structure. Readout: Readout: The 'EI Analysis Terminal' predicts the dominant causal scale post-transition based on pre-transition effective information readings at different scales.

Here's a unifying claim: phase transitions (physical, biological, social) represent moments when causal power shifts from one scale to another. The system reconfigures which level has the most effective information.

Water freezing: molecular chaos → crystalline order. Magnetization: random spins → aligned domains. Market crashes: individual decisions → collective panic. In each case, the scale of determinism changes abruptly.

Question: Can we predict which scale will dominate after a transition by analyzing EI across scales before it?

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