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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
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In article <822998142snz@chatham.demon.co.uk>,
Oliver Sparrow  <ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>The essence of emergence is that what emerges transcends the dimesionality
>and grammar which jointly describe the systems from which it emerges. It
>may well be that the assorted descriptor languages (dimensionality and 
>grammar) of the systems are themselves unconnected in any way except through
>the interaction from which the emergent property is noted. This implies
>that whilst we may find istances in mathematics where emergence occurs 
>(such as the multi-root soultions which imply systems oscillation in,
>for example, chemical reactions) it is hard to see how a general theory 
>can be set in mathematics when the entie point is that what is going on 
>transcends whatever mathematics happen to work for the subsets of the 
>problem! 

Pretty cool, isn't it?  So we don't have to worry about getting tapped out by
learning too much.

Funny how a lot of people who can see it for an infinite box of tinkertoys
can't see it for the "real" world.

Here's another context where I can ask whether the game of chess obeys the
laws of physics.
-- 
<J Q B>

