Weak Emergence and Complexity
(2010) p.879-886- Abstract
- In this paper we consider Mark Bedau’s notion of weak emer- gence (WE) and relate it to various attempts to objectively construe complexity. We argue that the heavy reliance on a specific notion of complexity risks rendering the concept superfluous. Furthermore we discuss what sort of systems might reasonably be understood as exhibiting emergence at all and point out that the macro-level needs to be at least min- imally structured. A worry may thus be formed that macro- level generalisations provide the sort of short-cut that is ex- plicitly excluded from WE thus potentially making the con- cept apply only to chaotic systems of limited interest (in this context).
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- author
- Thorén, Henrik LU and Gerlee, Philip
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- weak emergence, emergence, complexity, predictability, chaos
- host publication
- Artificial Life XII Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
- editor
- Fellerman, Harold ; Dörr, Mark ; Hanczy, Martin ; Ladegaard Laursen, Lone ; Mauer, Sarah ; Merkle, Daniel ; Monnard, Pierre-Alain ; Støy, Kasper and Rasmussen, Steen
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- MIT Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84874728757
- ISBN
- 978-0-262-29075-3
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- cac56b85-024c-40e7-ac7b-42366ed92ff8 (old id 1718757)
- alternative location
- http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Artificial_Life_XII.pdf
- http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/alife/0262290758chap151.pdf
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