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Weak Emergence and Complexity

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Harold Fellerman
  • Mark Dörr
  • Martin Hanczy
  • Lone Ladegaard Laursen
  • Sarah Mauer
  • Daniel Merkle
  • Pierre-Alain Monnard
  • Kasper Støy
  • Steen Rasmussen

Summary, in English

In this paper we consider Mark Bedau’s notion of weak emer- gence (WE) and relate it to various attempts to objectively construe complexity. We argue that the heavy reliance on a specific notion of complexity risks rendering the concept superfluous. Furthermore we discuss what sort of systems might reasonably be understood as exhibiting emergence at all and point out that the macro-level needs to be at least min- imally structured. A worry may thus be formed that macro- level generalisations provide the sort of short-cut that is ex- plicitly excluded from WE thus potentially making the con- cept apply only to chaotic systems of limited interest (in this context).

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

879-886

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Artificial Life XII Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

MIT Press

Ämne

  • Philosophy
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • weak emergence
  • emergence
  • complexity
  • predictability
  • chaos

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-0-262-29075-3