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IRREDUCIBLE. “Strong emergence describes the direct causal action of a high-level system upon its components; qualities produced this way are irreducible to the system's constituent parts. The whole is other than the sum of its parts. It is argued then that no simulation of the system can exist, for such a simulation would itself constitute a reduction of the system to its constituent parts.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

STRONG EMERGENCE. “Crucial in these simulations is that the interacting members retain their independence. If not, a new entity is formed with new, emergent properties: this is called strong emergence, which it is argued cannot be simulated or analysed.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

“WEAK EMERGENCE is a type of emergence in which the emergent property is amenable to computer simulation or similar forms of after-the-fact analysis (for example, the formation of a traffic jam, the structure of a flock of starlings in flight or a school of fish, or the formation of galaxies).” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

NEW APPROACH. “This article presents an overview of a recently proposed formal theory of causal emergence based on the frame-work of Partial Information Decomposition (PID).” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

SCIENTIFIC METHOD. “Moreover, having a formal theory of emergence will allow scientists to formulate rigorous, falsifiable conjectures about emergence in different scenarios and test them on data.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

BETTER NEW THEORY. “It is related to the fact that galaxies and clusters have very different length scales. In the presence of gravity, the temperature is not constant in space at equilibrium.” https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/11/1035/htm View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH. “Riding on a wave of renewed philosophical investigations, recent work is opening a new space of discussion about emergence that is firmly within the realm of empirical scientific investigation.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

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GLIMMER OF HOPE. “Modern scientific practice is dominated by reductionist assumptions, at least in its overall theoretical and philosophical commitments. At the same time, the hi- erarchical organisation and in-practice relative independence of the domains of different scientific disciplines (e.g. physics, biology) suggests that some form of emergentism remains in play.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING. “Since this Galaxy began, vast civilizations have risen and fallen, risen and fallen, risen and fallen so often that it's quite tempting to think that life in the Galaxy must be: (a) something akin to seasick, space-sick, time sick, history sick or some such thing, and (b) stupid.” https://lnkd.in/ei-_8xs6 View in LinkedIn