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EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

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The Basic Idea of Emergence in Complexity Science

The etymological meaning of emerge is actually the opposite of the sub merge. To emerge means to come out of the water. There's a notion in which, and this was a part of the kind of movement of what was called the British British Emergentist movement. This becomes really important when we appreciate that parts coming together to form new holes have novel properties then can only be assessed at that level. And then we have to consider those properties on their own terms, so to speak.

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