On 30 April 2014 21:47, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote:
> Emergence means that the higher level is idependent of the substrate > and produce effects in the substrate. That means that once emerged, it > does not matter if is the result off a darwinian process, a numeric > simulation or an intelligent design, it is as it is and start to work > with their own rules, influencing above and below it. > > http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~ellis/nature.pdf The article says that events in the early universe create a "context" for the emergence of complexity but does not explain it causally, and the higher levels of complexity are functionally independent of the lower levels and have "autonomous causal powers". This seems to me no different than claiming that pattern of billiard balls ten interactions down is independent of the original pattern. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
