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What is emergence?
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Re: What is emergence?
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You are most welcome! Glad you liked it. I've never logged in here before, and I am amused that someone posted this little emergence post here. I intended it mostly for circulation among friends. But you have inspired me to collect the 'syllabus' of my informal journal club. Here is an annotated reading list: https://axispraxis.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/an-emergence-rea...
Much obliged and glad you visited. Your characterization of emergence as how we experience a jump between conceptual frameworks, rather than progression through an objective hierarchy, scratched an itch. Appreciating science as a set of frameworks floating in sea of unknown, rather than tiling and comprehending our world, would fix a lot of issues in science and a lot of the ongoing crisis of faith in expertise. Look…
Wow! Your summary of what I am getting at is spot-on.
Re: What is emergence?
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You might enjoy https://www.readthesequences.com/The-Futility-Of-Emergence
I prefer reading these on LessWrong, because people often point out when Eliezer's said something unjustified. (Often he provides the justification in the comments, but on a couple of occasions there hasn't been a justification – he's just been flat-out wrong.) This one's pretty good, though. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8QzZKw9WHRxjR4948/the-futili...
Turns out that https://www.readthesequences.com/ contains the edits for the book version, so if you're reading them all through it'll probably be more coherent on that website. Dilemma!