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Wednesday, March 21. 2018

Fun with Emergence

Emergent Properties refer to outcomes that one cannot predict in advance in complex systems. Things to which reductionism does not apply.


Life is considered an emergent property of chemistry and physics. Consciousness is often considered an emergent property of biology. 


If I provided anyone with a group of DNA molecules from any life form, could that person look at the sequence of nucleotides and accurately predict the outcome such genes? So is God an emergent property of Homo Sapiens or vice versa?


 Emergence, at Wikipedia.



Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 11:57 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Emergent Properties.... A lot of today's "scientists" seem to spend most of their time thinking up new says to express old knowledge. Someone probably got a PhD for thinking up that one.
#1 BillH on 2018-03-21 12:21 (Reply)
God in his wondrous creations.
#2 JC on 2018-03-21 19:07 (Reply)
Of course it is deterministic. We only understand it at a very low level, is all, and don’t have anywhere near the computational ability to sort it out—yet. But a gene makes a protein, that’s all there is to it. Those proteins do something, sometimes we know exactly, sometimes we have no idea.

Every three base pairs of a DNA strand represent an amino acid, a series of amino acids put together in a particular order is a protein, and life is controlled by the chemistry of those proteins.
#3 Bruce Anderson on 2018-03-21 19:34 (Reply)
"Emergent Properties refer to outcomes that one cannot predict in advance . . . ."

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A good example is a politician before he/she is elected, and after he/she is elected.
#4 Jim on 2018-03-21 20:39 (Reply)
Anyone who disbelieves the existence of extraterrestrial, alien life forms, needs to watch this video!

OTHERWORLDLY is the only descriptor that fits.
#5 B48 on 2018-03-23 10:56 (Reply)

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