Congratulations. The core idea of this paper seems to be that
we can understand emergence as the realization of an abstract
data type. So far so good, a glider in the Game of Life can
be considered as an implementation or realization of the abstract
data type glider, at least the form. Is it possible that the behavioral
aspect is missing here? The gliders may interact which other
objects, for example glider guns, spaceships, etc. in
various ways.
Consider a distributed algorithm running in a network
of nodes, for instance the echo algorithm. The resulting
wave which propagates through the system can be considered
as an emergent property, entity or pattern, but is it an abstract
data type? It seems to be more like an abstract operation,
algorithm or process. I doubt that emergence in general is
best understood as the realization/implementation of an abstract
data type.
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Russ Abbott
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 8:47 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] Emergence paper
My short paper, "Abstract Data Types and Constructive Emergence," has
finally appeared in the Newsletter on Philosophy and Computing of the
American Philosophical Association (Spring 2010 edition, pp 48-56). Among
other things, I answer the questions raised by Bedau and Humphries in their
Emergence book.
-- Russ Abbott
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