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At least in the social sciences not so abstract. There are certain behaviors that can just be explained as emergent, rather than individual behaviors. That migh
by _glass 4y ago
At least in the social sciences not so abstract. There are certain behaviors that can just be explained as emergent, rather than individual behaviors. That might be crowd, market, group, politics, culture (with art, language, fashion, taboos, etc.).
- HervalFreire 4y agoOf course. But the computer is a controlled environment designed to imitate the rigor of formal mathematics. It is usually not expected for such behavior to occur in computing. Of course in the real world it happens all the time. YOU are emergent behavior. Humans and the rest of biology come from natural selection and evolution, which is basically by definition, emergent behavior of atoms.