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

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?