Downward Causation and the Autonomy of Weak Emergence
Vol 6, No 1 (2002) • Principia: an international journal of epistemology
Autor: Mark Bedau
Abstract:
Weak emergence has been offered as an explicatzon of the ubiquztous notum of emergence used m complexity science After outinung the problem of emergence and comparmg weak emergence with the two other nuun objecuvist approaches to emergence, the paper explams a vetsion of weak emergence and illustrcues at with cellular automata Then it explcans the sart of downward causattan and explanatory auumomy mvolved m weak ernergence.
ISSN: 1414-4217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/17003/15556
Palavras-Chave: emergence; downward causation; autonomy
Principia: an international journal of epistemology
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