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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" "Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees" "Is my destroyer." "And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose" "My youth is bent by the same wintry fever." " https://lnkd.in/dEkmDe2 View in LinkedIn

QUAINT MYTH. “There are there­fore, powerful prima facie reasons for doubting that language is essential for conscious experience, and in consequence for wondering whether the significance of language for cognitive functions has been misestimated.” (Excellent article). https://lnkd.in/epRnFgUf View in LinkedIn

BRAIN SYSTEM. “Remarkably, analyses of human fMRI data have identified a gradient with redundancy-dominated sensory and motor regions at one end, and synergy-dominated association cortices dedicated to multimodal integration and high-order cognition at the other end.” (fMRI = functional MRI). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

TESTING THE THEORY. “Moving from simulations to empirical data, the ΦID framework for causal emergence was also adopted to study how motor behaviour might be emergent from brain activity. Results indicated that the motion-related signal is an emergent feature of the macaque’s brain activity.” (ΦID = Integrated Information Decomposition). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

MATERIAL DRIVEN. “As in Nature, when creation begins with matter, morphogenesis, or the generation of form, is a process engendered by the physical forces of Nature. Similarly, in the framework of this essay, Material is not considered a subordinate attribute of form, but rather its progenitor.” (The remarkable Professor Neri Oxman, MIT Media Lab). https://lnkd.in/ezq26y33 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this second weekend on the phenomenon of emergence. “The central task of theoretical physics in our time is no longer to write down the ultimate equations, but rather to catalogue and understand emergent behavior in its many guises, including potentially life itself. We call this physics of the next [21st] century the study of complex adaptive matter.” (David Pines, Santa Fe Institute). https://medium.com/sfi-30-foundations-frontiers/emergence-a-unifying-theme-for-21st-century-science-4324ac0f951e#:~:text=Examples%20of%20emergent%20behavior%20are,and%20planets%2C%20the%20evolution%20of View in LinkedIn

ABOMINABLE MYSTERY. “Although strong emergence is logically possible, it is uncomfortably like magic. Such causal powers would be quite unlike anything within our scientific ken. This not only indicates how they will discomfort reasonable forms of materialism. Their mysteriousness will only heighten the traditional worry that emergence entails illegitimately getting something from nothing.” (Mark A. Bedau). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

SPIRITUAL VIEWS. “In religion, emergence grounds expressions of religious naturalism and syntheism in which a sense of the sacred is perceived in the workings of entirely naturalistic processes by which more complex forms arise or evolve from simpler forms.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX SYSTEMS. “One reason emergent behaviour is hard to predict is that the number of interactions between a system's components increases exponentially with the number of components, thus allowing for many new and subtle types of behaviour to emerge. Emergence is often a product of particular patterns of interaction. Negative feedback introduces constraints that serve to fix structures or behaviours. In contrast, positive feedback promotes change, allowing local variations to grow into global patterns.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

UNIVERSAL NOISE. “In the quantum sense, one environment that no physical system can be isolated from is the vacuum that fluctuates all the time.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6433-5.pdf View in LinkedIn