Condensed concepts

 I have been dabbling a little with using AI (at a very basic level) to help me with some research problems. For example, in a recent prepr...

 I am a slow adopter of new technologies. I have recently been playing around with AI at a very basic level on some research problems. Colle...

I continue to enjoy reading my hard copy of The Economist every week. Occasionally, I post examples of insightful graphics presented in arti...

 The theory of evolution explains the origin of biological diversity and levels of similarity between species. A characteristic of emergence...

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

I find it difficult to wade through all the hype about AI, along with the anecdotes about its failings to reliably answer basic questions. G...

A typical undergraduate course on statistical mechanics is arguably misleading because (unintentionally) it does not tell students several i...

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

Bribie Island, just north of Brisbane. The University of Queensland has just advertised several jobs that may be of interest to readers of t...

Two years ago, I wrote a post about a paper by Wei et al,  Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models Then last year, I posted about a pap...

This friday I am giving a colloquium for the UQ Physics department. 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry: from biological physics to a...

 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 ...

Emergence means different things to different people. Except, that practically everyone likes it! Or at least, likes using the word. Terms a...