EMERGENT SYSTEMS. “It is not possible to determine the causal linkage between the primitive form of set theory and verbal language. It is not that set theory caused verbal language to emerge or that language allowed set theory to emerge. Rather we would claim, invoking complexity theory and emergent dynamics, that mathematical set theory and verbal language self-organized into an emergent supervenient system.”
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