> Liquidity is not a property of h2o molecules but it is of water The ability to speak English is not a property of floating points, but it is of certain, very

> Liquidity is not a property of h2o molecules but it is of water The ability to speak English is not a property of floating points, but it is of certain, very specific large tensors of them. What's the difference? > Emergence is an ontological relationship between properties of objects --- it isn't a mathematical property of a data distribution nor of an approximation function. I don't see a hard distinction between ontological relationships and data distributions. All information is fundamentally statistical. Our access to ontology is forever and always mediated by "data distributions". One could, of course posit that there are fundamental, non-statistical ontological things out there. However, the liquidity of water being an ontological relationship while the English-speaking of GPT not being so is merely a hypothesis, not an objective fact of the universe, at least not as far as I can tell.