Stathis: what does "early universe" mean? 10 million or 4 billion (solar?) yeas ago? OR: before the time postulated an 'inflation', to keep the flimsy math of our sciences in position? John Mikes
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > 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. > -- 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.
