On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
I think I'll have a Martini, while contemplating this opportunity.
--Doug
Sounds good to me too! Er.. I'll drink to that?
I have to say I'm a bit surprised at the difficulty with emergence.
Wikipedia has an OK shot at it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
I think it's simply the appearance within a time varying aggregate
system of a feature not apparently derived from its components'
interactions.
-- Owen
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