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Not quite. Complex systems can exhibit macroscopic properties not evident at microscopic scales. For example, birds self organize into flocks, an emergent pheno
by esafak 2y ago
Not quite. Complex systems can exhibit macroscopic properties not evident at microscopic scales. For example, birds self organize into flocks, an emergent phenomenon, visible to the untrained eye. Our understanding of how it happens does not change the fact that it does.
There is a field of study for this called statistical mechanics.
https://ganguli-gang.stanford.edu/pdf/20.StatMechDeep.pdf https://ganguli-gang.stanford.edu/pdf/20.StatMechDeep.pdf