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I often find that people using the word emergent to describe properties of a system tend to ascribe quasi magical properties to the system. Things tend to get v
by eutropia 1y ago
I often find that people using the word emergent to describe properties of a system tend to ascribe quasi magical properties to the system. Things tend to get vague and hand wavy when that term comes up.
Just call them properties with unknown provenance.
- gond 1y ago> Just call them properties with unknown provenance. They would if it would be the correct designation, however, it is not. Emergence does not equal non-understanding or some spooky-hooky force coming from the unknown.Reductionism does not lead to an explaining-away of emergence.