Sentences with phrase «as emergent phenomena»

The article builds upon the Breakthrough Institute's «Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena», a comprehensive literature review pointing to the expert consensus and evidence that below - cost energy efficiency measures drive a rebound in energy consumption that erodes much of expected energy savings.

Breakthrough Institute's report Energy Emergence: Rebound and Backfire as Emergent Phenomena reviewed nearly 100 peer - reviewed articles on rebound and backfire, and discovered that across industrial sectors, such as electric utilities, construction, agriculture, manufacturing, and communications, rebound was found to be higher than at the consumer level.

Modern understanding of human behavior and sociology recognizes morality as an emergent phenomenon.

We have discussed cultural evolution in human societies as an emergent phenomenon of biological evolution.

Not exact matches

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has made much of this in his widely read The Phenomenon of Man, but long before the publication of that volume C. Lloyd - Morgan in his Gifford lectures had indicated the significance of such «emergents», along with the «importance» (although this is not his, but Whitehead's, word) which they possess both in the ongoing movement of the world and as a way of our grasping of the meaning of that world in its on going movement.

It proposes that this «spiritual» dimension is an emergent phenomenon from the complexity of the brain, just as nature is shot through with unities having holistic properties.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

Thus, cultural evolution, while in the first instance arises from and is dependent on genetic or biological factors, must now be viewed principally as an «epigenetic» or emergent phenomena.

In such theories, what we perceive as the space - time that bends and warps smoothly in the presence of matter is merely an emergent phenomenon masking more radical behaviour on small scales.

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

As an amateur science - fiction writer, I was excited to read that the difficulty in detecting dark matter may be due to it — or gravity — being an emergent phenomenon of a suite of particles (18 March, p 28).

Explores the electronic structure and electrodynamics of topological insulators and strongly correlated electron systems, with particular attention to emergent phenomena, such as superconductivity and magnetism, using angle - resolved photoemission (ARPES) and optical spectroscopy.

By «emergent phenomena» I mean what happens when people act as a group pursuing the same strategy.

As in all of her work, Donovan spends months or even years searching for a method of assembly that allows the simple and immutable characteristics of the chosen material to generate complex, emergent phenomena which keep the viewer cycling between perception of the parts and the whole between the forms themselves and the light that surrounds and divides them.

As in all of her works, Donovan spends months or even years searching for a method of assembly that allows the simple and immutable characteristics of the chosen material to generate complex, emergent phenomena.

Any atmosphere / ocean coupled model worth its salt should have phenomena similar to these as emergent from simulations (that is with extent and time scales similar to the real thing).

Actually ENSO - like phenomena show up as emergent properties in various models, including, unless I'm remembering incorrectly, NASA GISS Model E.

Earth already has a very complicated but natural system of climate temperature control, technically referred to as emergent climate phenomena, which have the result that catastrophic global warming can not occur.

While abrupt climate change is regarded as a possibility based upon paleoclimatic evidence of previous events, climate models are incapable of producing such emergent phenomena.

Andy == > We'll have to leave out the classification of religion in with such things as CAGW or HPV vaccination advocacy or opposition or other emergent cultural phenomena.

An unintended consequence of this strategy is that there has been very little left over for true climate modeling innovations and fundamental research into climate dynamics and theory — such research would not only support amelioration of deficiencies and failures in the current climate modeling systems, but would also lay the foundations for disruptive advances in our understanding of the climate system and our ability to predict emergent phenomena such as abrupt climate change.

This means that our forecasts tell us more about ourselves and our times than they do about emergent folks or phenomena, which is why it's fun, as a study in history, to see what the past has said... [more]

This means that our forecasts tell us more about ourselves and our times than they do about emergent folks or phenomena, which is why it's fun, as a study in history, to see what the past has said about its future.

They are fighting a bit of an uphill battle as coding is a language skill and learning it is an emergent phenomenon based on having a great context and environment in which to do so collaboratively.