Condensed concepts

The relationship between emergence and causation is contentious, with a long history. Most discussions are qualitative. Presented with a new...

Science provides an impressive path to certainty in some areas, particularly in physics. However, as scientists seek to describe increasingl...

 This week Nobel Prizes will be announced. I have not done predictions since 2020 . This is a fun exercise. It is also good to reflect on w...

The power of toy models and effective theories in describing and understanding emergent phenomena is illustrated by a 2012 study of the tur...

Due to emergence, reality is stratified. This is reflected in the existence of semi-autonomous scientific disciplines and subdisciplines. A ...

I just posted on the arXiv a long review article on emergence Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science The abstra...

It is important to be clear what the system is. Most of chemistry is not really about isolated molecules. A significant amount of chemistry ...

Patterns in space and/or time form in fluid dynamics (Rayleigh-Bénard convection and Taylor-Couette flow), laser physics, materials science ...

A decade ago John Hopfield reflected on his scientific life in  Annual Reviews in Condensed Matter Physics,  Whatever Happened to Solid Stat...

 I was happy to see John Hopfield was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on neural networks. The award is based on this paper ...

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. ...

"Ecological and evolutionary dynamics are intrinsically entwined. On short timescales, ecological interactions determine the fate and i...