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Title: John Symons (Editor-in-chief, Synthese & University of Texas)
Time: Wed Aug 5 3:30pm – 5:30pm (Timezone: Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney)
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Description: What are complexity and emergence? Some reflections on entropy
and individuation in toy worlds.
Abstract:
In the mid 1990s Mark Bedau described the phenomenon of weak emergence in
terms of computational complexity. This talk introduces the role of
information theory in the metaphysically tangled problem of emergence. I
will describe an approach to formally characterizing the hunt for emergent
properties in the dynamics of coupled networks. I will argue that what we
are learning in this project sheds light on the broader metaphysical
problem of emergence.
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