Sentences with phrase «about emergent properties»

BTW, that PNAS paper's abstract talks about emergent properties and contagion in ecosystems and cites Holling.

This abrupt turn from a causal theory of consciousness to talk about emergent properties not only leaves the puzzle about causality dangling, it compounds the mystery by evoking still more elementary puzzles about the meaning of emergence and evolution, as well as about how and where to locate sentience in an evolving «physical world.»

Not exact matches

Complex systems are characterized chiefly by these elements: many interacting components, non-linearities, discontinuities (i.e. the occurrence of something unexpected), and emergent properties, which come about when systems take on a «life of their own» and develop into something that often looks quite different than the original inputs.

The notions of «emergence» and «emergent properties» are used to develop an account of the structure - agency relationship that is consistent with Berger's concrete sociological work, whilst avoiding the shortcomings of his explicit reflections about the nature of the social world.

Another way to think about life is as an emergent property of a collection of certain nonliving things.

If subways are emergent properties of cities, Barthelemy says, «you can forget about details.»

This connection is not an emergent property of the model's physics, since we don't really know enough about the H2O cycle to model it — instead this feedback connection is one of the many «Parameters» in the model that are adjusted to attempt to match the prior data.

As they admit (when not thinking about its implications), ENSO is an «emergent property» in the Gaia Models.

There is an inevitability about this idea of a climate system that evolves with discrete jumps and emergent properties.

One common response to this view is that A.I. experts are particularly worried about learning machines, and that something about the complexity of these systems gives rise to emergent properties that are metaphysically irreducible to the sum of their parts.

When these emergent properties of computational monetary systems arise, it changes the way people feel about each other in relation to money.