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View submission: /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 27, 2020
It is an emergent phenomenon.
Peter Corning,
“The common characteristics are: (1) radical novelty (features not previously observed in systems); (2) coherence or correlation (meaning integrated wholes that maintain themselves over some period of time); (3) A global or macro "level" (i.e. there is some property of "wholeness"); (4) it is the product of a dynamical process (it evolves); and (5) it is "ostensive" (it can be perceived).”
What I think is lacking is the consideration for more than the relationship determining the results. The idea that if the forces are co-operant or contrary determines the outcome positively or negatively seems naive. The truth of emergence is that there is a chirality to the event that is indeterminable because the resultant is ongoing. If we reversed the effects of an emergent event, there is no way to know what events are commensurate. The ability to do so negates the idea of it being emergent. We may be able to determine the components, but we can not recreate the conditions perfectly.
There's nothing here!