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Emergence as a concept only serves to eliminate the need for a designer. It doesn't actually explain anything to someone who already accepts the possibility of
by nitrogen 10y ago
Emergence as a concept only serves to eliminate the need for a designer. It doesn't actually explain anything to someone who already accepts the possibility of complexity without design. But that doesn't mean it's a useless concept, just that it is sometimes misused (if the LW post's premise is true).
- ClayFerguson 10y agoRight, Emergence is a general term like Entropy, and I chose that on purpose because Emergence is more like the negative of or inverse of Entropy. Emergence is when you get order, complexity, and non-randomness out of pure randomness plus time plus rules.