Downward Causation and the Autonomy of Weak Emergence

Weak emergence has been offered as an explication of the ubiquitous notion of emergence used m complexity science After outlining the problem of emergence and comparing weak emergence with the two other weak objectivist approaches to emergence, the paper explains a version of weak emergence and illu...

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Main Author: Mark Bedau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2002-06-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/17003/15556