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RE: What is emergence?
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Keith L. Jenkins |
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RE: What is emergence? |
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Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:16:18 -0500 |
I'm unsure about the boundaries in the last clause. Does P really determine
the behavior of O's parts? Isn't P determined by the unpredicted
interactions among O's parts?
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Subject: RE: What is emergence?
Timothy O'Conner published a good definition in 1994:
The reference extracted from an excellent paper on emergence by Mark Bedau
(Reed College):
"
Property P is an emergent property of a (mereologically-complex) object O
iff P supervenes on properties of the parts of O, P is not had by any of the
object's parts, P is distinct from any structural property of O, and P has a
direct ("downward") determinative influence on the pattern of behavior
involving O's parts.
O'Conner (pp. 97f) explains that he wants to capture a very strong sense in
which an emergent's causal influence is irreducible to that of the
micro-properties on which it supervenes; it bears its influence in a direct
'downward' fashion, in contrast to the operation of a simple structural
macro-property, whose causal influence occurs via the activity of the
micro-properties which constitute it.
O'Conner, T. 1994. "Emergent Properties." American Philosophical Quarterly
31: 91-104
"
Bedau, M. 1997. "Weak Emergence", Published in:
James Tomberlin, ed., 1997, "Philosophical Perspectives: Mind, Causation,
and World", vol. 11 (Blackwell Publishers), pp. 375-399.
- Marc Millier
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