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Re: A question for the emergentists among you

Posted by Russell Standish on Oct 13, 2009; 3:27am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/A-question-for-the-emergentists-among-you-tp3799888p3813929.html

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 08:57:08AM -0700, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>
> Note that the above is about emergent phenomena, not emergent
> properties.  I still think the concept of an emergent property is either
> useless, self-contradictory, or just confused.
>

Eh? What's the difference between a property and a phenomenon? This
might explain why we were talking past each other before.

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