Condensed concepts

In the previous post, I considered five different characteristics that are often associated with emergence and classified them as being asso...

There is more to emergence than novel properties, i.e., where a whole system has a property that the individual components of the system do ...

Biology is a field that is all about emergence. It exhibits a hierarchy of structures from DNA to proteins to cells to organs to organisms. ...

                                                                                Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash I love seeing patterns su...

When is a phenomena truly emergent? Is there some objective quantitative criteria that one might use to decide? This is an issue becaus...

Seth Olsen kindly lent me his copy of Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics, and Reductionism  by Hans Primas, published in 1981. I has a Foreword b...

People are starting to make predictions. A post from last year links to prediction from other bloggers, mostly in Chemistry. 1. Experiment...

"Only wimps study the general case. Real scientists work through examples." Beresford Parlett This is often quoted by Sir Michael ...