It is said that strong emergence comes from Godel incompleteness. Weak emergence is like your grains of sand.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Stephen P. King <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Pratt's theory does not address this. Could emergence be the result of > inter-communications between monads and not an objective process at all? It > is useful to think about how to solve the Sorites paradox to see what I > mean here. A heap is said to emerge from a collection of grains, but is > there a number or discrete or smooth process that generates the heap? No! > The heap is just an abstract category that we assign. It is a name. > > On 8/23/2012 9:44 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: > >> Now if only someone could explain how emergence works. >> Can Pratt theory do that? >> >> > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." > ~ Francis Bacon > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to > everything-list@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe@ > **googlegroups.com <everything-list%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/everything-list?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
