RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
June 8, 2012 at 10:32 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2012 at 10:37 am by Anomalocaris.)
(June 8, 2012 at 9:34 am)Rhythm Wrote: Simply put emergence is the demonstrable tendency for complex and stable patterns to arise out of a seemingly simple set of initial starting conditions. Any "connotations" beyond this are more than likely strawmen.
More precisely, emergence is the spontaneous appearance of complex patterns and behaviors from a system with large numbers of simple components capable of only simply interactions.