Yeah, that definition is useless to me, unfortunately. It's definitions like that which force me to *avoid* the word "emergence" as much as possible.
On 5/7/19 4:39 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > In that same volume is my favorite definition of emergence: When the > properties of the whole are dependent upon the order or arrangement of the > ingredients. So a cake is an emergent, a bowl of oatmeal is not. I think > that's Wimsatt. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
