Hi Richard,
Ah! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_emergence
"Strong emergence is a type of emergence in which the emergent property
is irreducible to its individual constituents."
OK, but "irreducibility" would have almost the same meaning as implying
the non-existence of relations between the constituents and the
emergent. It makes a mathematical description of the pair impossible...
I don't think that I agree that it is derivable from Godel
Incompleteness; I will be agnostic on this for now. Could you explain
how it might?
On 8/23/2012 1:10 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote:
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] <mailto:[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?
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Onward!
Stephen
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