Sentences with phrase «emergent phenomenon on»

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

Not exact matches

Thus it is crucial that we focus our discussion here on the question of the ontological status, (that is the question of the «reality») of life and mind, the most obvious instances of allegedly «emergent» phenomena.

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.

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.

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.

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

Chemistry doesn't prefer anything, it proceeds «forward» based on specific conditions and certain properties (remember physicsàchemistryàbiologyàphysiology with each later phenomena an emergent one from the previous one)

I'd seriously consider jumping onto this emergent viral phenomenon on the ground floor!

However, the question is how much of the perceived convergence in range of uncertainty for future SLR is based on robust knowledge, and how much is an emergent social phenomenon.

Instead of simply nit - picking one sentence of Willis» essay on emergent climate phenomena, why don't you try refuting the message?

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.

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.