Re: mystery and emergence

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/mystery-and-emergence-tp3599553p3600566.html

All this talk of emergence and mystery reminds me wonderfully of
Clarke's third law:

    "Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic"

and the many wonderful riffs on that including:

    "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology"
    - Niven & then Pratchett

   "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
    - Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Law

or my mostest favorites:

    "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!"
    - Agatha Heterodyne

    "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a
yo-yo,"
    - Neal Stephenson (in the voice of Enoch Root)


So perhaps:

    "Any sufficiently subtle emergence is indistinguishable from mystery".
    or
    "Any sufficiently analyzed emergence is indistinguishable from ..."



- Steve



   

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