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Examples of emergent properties - Magical Realist - Apr 16, 2023
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3410/03-ever-nf.html
"It's not magic," the physicist Doyne Farmer once said about the phenomenon known as emergence, "but it feels like magic." Creatures, cities, and storms self-organize, with low-level rules giving rise to higher-level sophistication. Entirely new properties and behaviors "emerge," with no one directing and no one able to foresee the new characteristics from knowledge of the constituents alone. The whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts. In the following 10 examples, see how emergence pervades our everyday lives...."
RE: Examples of emergent properties - Kornee - Apr 17, 2023
Emergence is a powerful principle but it can be taken too far. The author cites various examples where it applies, then at the end slips in one where it fails utterly - OOL:
https://www.discovery.org/v/origin-of-life-replication/
Strange in a way that some have no trouble believing in ghosts and communicating with notionally dead relatives but balk at the idea of a supernatural God.
The underlying motivation likely deeply psychological - 'A real God couldn't allow the oft cruelty of life's outcomes'. Instead imagine self-organizing can do it all somehow.