Questions tagged [emergence]
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Does the distinction between "weak" and "strong" emergence make any sense?
(this post has been edited on 14 Nov 2023 based on comments received at the time)
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Emergence is widely discussed in the context of what could be called bio-philosophy ("Where does life come from?") and existential philosophy ("What is…
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What is supervenience emergentism?
I'm trying to understanding supervenience emergentism, but the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry is unclear.
My understanding of supervenience was that the lower level properties of the system determine the higher level properties of the…
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Is emergence necessarily context dependent?
Basically this question stems from trying to answer yet another question that I have:
How does one analyse emergent properties that are not quantifiable, to allow for discrete mathematical probing?
Or in other words:
How does one go about…
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