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ANT HIVE. “An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities (agents) operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviors as a collective. If emergence happens over disparate size scales, then the reason is usually a causal relation across different scales. In other words, there is often a form of top-down feedback in systems with emergent properties.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT CONSCIOUSNESS. “In this way, the more nuanced view on neural information dynamics offered by ΦID offers the promise of further insights for our understanding of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon. Developing procedures to either identify emergent features, or to efficiently calculate emergent capacity in large systems are important avenues for future work.” (ΦID = Integrated Information Decomposition). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

DE-COUPLING. “Interestingly, analysis of fMRI data showed that loss of consciousness due to brain injury corresponds to a reduction of integrated information and causal emergence in the brain.” (fMRI = functional MRI). https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

CONSCIOUSNESS. “Causal emergence (de-coupling) increases both along the cortical hierarchy of the human brain, and across the gap from non-human primates to humans. Relatedly, there has been a long-standing debate on whether consciousness could be viewed as an emergent phenomenon enabled by the complex interactions between neurons.” https://lnkd.in/eFDvNHBt View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM GRAVITY. “Naturally, one may wonder what happens if gravitational waves are quantized. One of the consequences, if gravity is quantized, is the quantum fluctuations of spacetime itself.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6433-5.pdf View in LinkedIn

CONFIRMATION. “Recently, gravitational wave signals from black hole merging systems have been directly detected, and this confirms the prediction based on Einstein’s general relativity over a hundred years ago.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6433-5.pdf View in LinkedIn

CONJECTURE. “There should be quantum vacuum fluctuations of spacetime itself, if we accept that the basic quantum principles we are already familiar with apply as well to a quantum theory of gravity.” https://lnkd.in/eQiUdtDc View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION CORE. “Quantum fluctuations of physical observables, which commonly arise from quantum nature of the system, play a crucial role because they give out information about phase transitions, and large scale structure formation as well as phenomena which are dissipative in nature.” https://lnkd.in/eMV6hEup View in LinkedIn

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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