Complexity and the Emergence of Physical Properties

Using the effective complexity measure, proposed by M. Gell-Mann and S. Lloyd, we give a quantitative definition of an emergent property. We use several previous results and properties of this particular information measure closely related to the random features of the entity and its regularities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miguel Angel Fuentes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-08-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/8/4489