RE: Where is the information stored?
January 20, 2015 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 1:59 pm by Davka.)
(January 20, 2015 at 10:47 am)Alex K Wrote: What is the property of something that makes it an emergent thing?
My understanding is that the properties themselves are emergent. The simplest example I've read is the difference between a pile of steel rods and connecting nuts-and-bolts, and a tiger cage. Arranging the pile as a tiger cage imparts to it the property of 'containment,' something it didn't have as a jumbled pile.
Certain specific complex arrangements of matter give rise to emergent properties.