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"Emergent property" is a very fitting, useful and appropriate description for complex behavior that results from simple rules. An example would be the centrifu
by myrmidon 4y ago
"Emergent property" is a very fitting, useful and appropriate description for complex behavior that results from simple rules.
An example would be the centrifugal force, which "emerges" from basic Newtonian inertia.
Or the skin effect in AC electrics which (like pretty much ALL of circuit theory) is just a consequence of a few electrodynamic laws (Maxwell etc.).
But just knowing the basic laws does NOT mean that we can grasp all of the emergent behavior that necessarily follows-- physics => chemistry => biology would be the same thing, otherwise :P
- mindslight 4y agoIn examples from the physical world, I think one could conceivably claim that there are some underlying basic rule(s) that we haven't discovered yet, which would explain the "emergent" behavior. However if you take a look at cellular automata, which are artificial and thus completely defined, it's much clearer that complex "emergent" behavior really can result from nothing but very simple rules.