Currents 053: Matthew Pirkowski on Grammars of Emergence
The Jim Rutt Show
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Emergence, a Concept That's Not Usually Learned in School
Emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole ye yem. This debate then extended as part of this evolutionary tension between reductionism and vitalism, at the time, in the early nineteenth century. In some way, you have something like ritin because you have a property that lets you reduce water into ice. And so all these causal influences from the reductionist perspective can flow upwards from the actual physical molecules we're talking about. It's amazing. Some of these people will be listening two years from now. The tale on these podcasts today is thursday fe
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