Weak Emergence and Complexity

Thorén, HenrikLund University,Lunds universitet,Teoretisk filosofi,Filosofiska institutionen,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,LUCSUS,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Theoretical Philosophy,Department of Philosophy,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies),Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences (author)

In this paper we consider Mark Bedau’s notion of weak emer- gence (WE) and relate it to various attempts to objectively construe complexity. We argue that the heavy reliance on a specific notion of complexity risks rendering the concept superfluous. Furthermore we discuss what sort of systems might reasonably be understood as exhibiting emergence at all and point out that the macro-level needs to be at least min- imally structured. A worry may thus be formed that macro- level generalisations provide the sort of short-cut that is ex- plicitly excluded from WE thus potentially making the con- cept apply only to chaotic systems of limited interest (in this context).

Gerlee, Philip,1980Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin,Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine(Swepub:gu)xgerph (author)
Fellerman, Harold (editor)
Dörr, Mark (editor)
Hanczy, Martin (editor)
Ladegaard Laursen, Lone (editor)
Mauer, Sarah (editor)
Merkle, Daniel (editor)
Monnard, Pierre-Alain (editor)
Støy, Kasper (editor)
Rasmussen, Steen (editor)
Teoretisk filosofiFilosofiska institutionen (creator_code:org_t)

In:Artificial Life XII Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, s. 879-88697802622907530262290758

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