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Demystifying emergence and evolution| old_uid | 7638 |
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| title | Demystifying emergence and evolution |
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| start_date | 2009/11/19 |
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| schedule | 11h-13h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Many of the most interesting exemplars of emergence are complex, highly evolved and self-organizing. For any notion of emergence to be useful, however, it must be definable in a clear, unambiguous manner. Several authors (e.g. Bar-Yam, 2004; Ryan, 2008) have argued that the conventional account in terms of level and hierarchy does not meet this criterion. The primary problem with levels in a hierarchy is that such apparent levels may not really exist. More often than not, they are artificially imposed on the world by the way we structure our thoughts or observations. As such, Ryan (2008) has proposed an alternative framework based on /scope/, /resolution/ and /state/. This alternative framework is fundamentally /spatial/, since scope is defined by a spatial boundary and resolution is defined as the finest spatial distinction between two alternative system configurations. |
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| responsibles | Barberousse, Tessier Cardon |
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