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10-24-2007, 07:25 PM
Re: An Idea

Well, I want to thank both of you, for your time to look at my Idea and for your comments.

Benedict;

I thought the emergence would be in the entity's awareness of itself. And thank you for bringing up that most important point. I looked up from your wiki link;

An emergent behaviour or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities (agents) operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviours as a collective. If emergence happens over disparate size scales, then the reason is usually a causal relation across different scales. In other words there is often a form of top-down feedback in systems with emergent properties. The processes from which emergent properties result may occur in either the observed or observing system, and can commonly be identified by their patterns of accumulating change, most generally called 'growth'. Why emergent behaviours occur include: intricate causal relations across different scales and feedback, known as interconnectivity. The emergent property itself may be either very predictable or unpredictable and unprecedented, and represent a new level of the system's evolution. The complex behaviour or properties are not a property of any single such entity, nor can they easily be predicted or deduced from behaviour in the lower-level entities: they are irreducible. No physical property of an individual molecule of air would lead one to think that a large collection of them will transmit sound. The shape and behaviour of a flock of birds[1] or shoal of fish are also good examples.

I wish Ed Witten rejected this Idea, I think it might be a little too metaphysical for most physicists.


Drifter;

I perceive you are very metaphysical and spiritual, which i think is a good position to be.

Best to both of you, and again thanks,

Pat

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