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ELEGANT DEFINITION. "Emergence is the phenomenon wherein complex, interesting high-level function is produced as a result of combining simple low-level mechanisms in simple ways." https://lnkd.in/dmJdbxk http://consc.net/notes/emergence.html View in LinkedIn

"EMERGENCE can be defined as the formation of order from disorder based on self-organisation." https://lnkd.in/duyAimW View in LinkedIn

OCCLUDED VIEW. "Emergence is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties." https://lnkd.in/dc4VwZz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE may be the fly in the ointment that results in totally unexpected interactions between informational computer codes, giving us the inability to predict, nor control outcomes. The dramatic increase in computer code complexity in the short time it has been on the planet shows no sign of abating. Complex autonomous agents are the engine of emergent phenomena. View in LinkedIn

OUR ABILITY TO PREDICT how any complex system reacts as it gains greater complexity is confounded in all systems by the phenomenon of emergence, or the development of unanticipated traits and phenomena. This is now well recognized in biological systems. Is it equally recognized in increasingly complex computing systems? View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this fragment that looks at a radical change in thinking in life sciences. No longer clear species built of individuals, but a continuum of creatures co-evolving. View in LinkedIn

ORGAN SIGNALS. "In numerous organisms, the development of particular organs is predicated on chemical signals from symbionts. For example, the ovaries of the parasitoid wasp, Asobara, undergo apoptosis if signals from their Wolbachia symbionts are lacking." View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL SELF-ORGANIZATION. "Self-organization can be defined as the formation of complex patterned structures from units of less complexity by local internal interactions, without referring to an external blueprint or template. These internal interactions typically form feedback loops, thereby conferring robustness to the system. Other common features found in self-organizing systems are nonlinearity, symmetry breaking and the emergence of patterns from stochastic fluctuations." https://lnkd.in/dPFe4e3 View in LinkedIn

OBLIGATE DEPENDENCY. "The development of both vertebrates and invertebrates (especially larval and postembryonic development) is predicated on relations with microbes." View in LinkedIn

SUMMATION MULTIPLIES. "At each level of complexity entirely new properties appear. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry. We can now see that the whole becomes not merely more, but very different from the sum of its parts." https://lnkd.in/daguaP7 View in LinkedIn