Sentences with phrase «emergent phenomenon»

Consciousness is a later emergent phenomenon of experience which highlights certain aspects of it but can not in any way be exhaustive of it.

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.

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.

It is a self - organized emergent phenomenon.

Weather and climate are emergent phenomenon on scales from seconds to millennia.

There's already plenty of evidence that space and time are secondary, so - called emergent phenomena.

This self - organization is a remarkable emergent phenomenon, Saif said, and how the cells communicate with each other on the flexible polymer tail is yet to be fully understood.

Scientists hope to find exotic emergent phenomena in these high - density, highly - interactive electron environments.

A detailed understanding of the physics of individual atoms interacting with each other at the microscopic level can lead to the discovery of novel emergent phenomena, help guide the synthesis of new materials, and even aid future drug development.

His research focuses on the use of elastic and inelastic neutron scattering to elucidate complex behavior in materials exhibiting emergent phenomena.

The show's title is inspired by a very specific emergent phenomenon, «neuromast,» which is the sensory organ that allows fish to effectively behave in unison against the threat of predators.

Projections, in conjunction with scenarios, are used in ecology, the military, and corporations to better handle and manage emergent phenomena.

But probably the most important emergent phenomenon goes by the name of the thunderstorm thermostat hypothesis.

Other emergent phenomena that operate elsewhere, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, also redistribute heat and keep down temperatures.

One interesting idea is that it results from Earth's formidable system of natural temperature - regulating emergent phenomena, particularly near the oceanic tropics, where much of the sun's energy enters the climate system.

«Emergent phenomena in topological physics are probably all around us — even in a piece of rock,» says Zahid Hasan, a physicist at Princeton University in New Jersey.

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.

That is not a proof that all are, it is objective evidence that no emergent phenomenon has been found to be metaphysical.

Emergent phenomena are all around us and they are natural.

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.

It is ironic and telling that within a few days of writing a post about how young people seem to be gravitating toward either neo-Reformed theology or the emerging church, I should come across a piece by Dan Kimball in which he speaks of the emerging / emergent phenomenon in the past tense.

The emergent phenomena, life and mind, are obvious illustrations of this fleetingness.

According to the ideas of emergence and value that we have presented there is a fragility in the universe that appears in direct proportion to the degree of intensity and complexity of emergent phenomena.

Consciousness may be understood as an emergent phenomenon which, upon coming forth from its neural matrix, has the capacity to generate ever more complex structures of awareness, including an autobiographical sense of self.

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.

From Newton's fixed space and time to Einstein's flexible space - time, and now to space and time as emergent phenomena, we have come a long way.

I do believe that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon.

Nevertheless, he insists that scientists can discover profound new laws by investigating complex, emergent phenomena, which can not be understood in terms of their individual components.

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).

Some scientists think that subway networks are an emergent phenomenon of large cities; each network is the product of hundreds of rational but uncoordinated decisions that take place over many years.

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.

TKF: I want to get back to something Terry said earlier about the emergent phenomena that happen when the bacteria come together.

Blockbusters are an emergent phenomenon completely disconnected from what members of the public consider to be culturally worthwhile or how they define literary quality.