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	Consciousness and mind as emergent phenomena or emergent properties of the brain
		A frequently used materialist argument against the existence of the mind as a non-physical continuum is to claim that it is an 'emergent property' or 'emergent phenomenon' of the brain.
		But if the phenomenon hasn't emerged from the object, then the only other place from which it could have emerged is the mind of the observer.
		Emergent properties are usually properties that are more easily understood in their own right than in terms of properties at a lower level.
	home.btclick.com /scimah/emergent.htm (2340 words)

	Varieties of Emergence
		If one has emergent behavior without emergent qualities, one has a picture of the world on which the only fundamental properties are physical, but on which their evolution is governed in part by high-level configurational laws.
		Emergent properties are usually properties that are more easily understood in their own right than in terms of properties at a lower level.
		Properties are classed as "emergent" based at least in part on (1) the interestingness to a given observer of the high-level property at hand; and (2) the difficulty of an observer's deducing the high-level property from low-level properties.
	consc.net /papers/granada.html (4219 words)

	Emergence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "emergent" was coined by the pioneer psychologist G.
		Emergent structures are a common strategy found in many animal groups: colonies of ants, mounds built by termites, swarms of bees, shoals/schools of fish, flocks of birds, and herds/packs of mammals.
		Emergent processes or behaviours can be seen in many places, such as traffic patterns, cities, political systems of governance, organizational phenomena in computer simulations and cellular automata.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emergence (3944 words)

	Quantum Ontology: Minds, Brains & Catalysis
		Thus, it is often claimed that the properties of emergent phenomena cannot be predicted from the properties of the components that comprise the system.
		Observations of emergent dynamics in complex systems have led many researchers to argue that the mind itself is an emergent phenomenon.
		We may justifiably ask, 'How does an emergent process integrate itself successfully into the many emergent processes that comprise a living organism in such a way as to benefit them all?' I suggest that there must be a common principle or property common to emergent dynamic processes that comprise a living organism.
	www.psy.cmu.edu:16080 /~davia/mbc/5start.html (981 words)

	Apologetics Group - Understanding the Emergent Church
		While the bulk of his book effectively challenges Emergent’s interpretation of modernism and postmodernism, Carson also sharply critiques two influential Emergent writers, Brian McLaren in the U.S. and Steve Chalke in the U.K. His final chapter suggests that the Emergent phenomenon may be partly explained by the familiar false dichotomy between truth and experience.
		According to the authors, while some of Emergent’s older leaders came of age in the “new paradigm” churches of the 1960s and ‘70s, the real starting point was the mid-1980s, when Gen X ministries began catering to youth culture.
		Emergent writers emphasize a return to the importance of the local church as both an intimate, extended family and a positive presence for good among its neighbors.
	d.dominodeveloper.net /gsmythe/home.nsf/f21ee91c64a30fa3882570900056e584/71d594344ff62d8f8825719d0061238c!OpenDocument (2774 words)

	HowTo view consciousness as an emergent phenomenon - The Brights' Movement Forums
		An emergent property is one that appears as the result of interaction of a, usually large, population of entities.
		An emergent property is one that results from the behaviour of a large population of interacting entities.
		The organism is therefore an emergent property of the collective behaviour of the cells.
	www.the-brights.net /forums/forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=55460 (2980 words)

	HowTo view consciousness as an emergent phenomenon - The Brights' Movement Forums
		The termite colony and the termite nest are thus emergent phenomena.
		The phenomenon of experience can emerge from the system so long as the individual parts are sufficiently well understood and reproduced.
		My sense then would be that 'emergent' makes consciousness seem too accidental whereas I would have to imagine that it actually was a hard won incremental (evolutionary) battle towards ever increasing degrees of cohesive high level abstracts incorporating environment and self modelling.
	www.the-brights.net /forums/forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=55436 (3799 words)

	Emergent Phenomenon Research Group: HowToBuildAModel
		It should be something about which you know something: models don't really create knowledge so much as they organize and test knowledge.
		You're not going to reproduce the phenomenon exactly, in every detail.
		Decide what feature(s) of the natural phenomenon is worthy of your modeling effort.
	emergent.brynmawr.edu /eprg/?page=HowToBuildAModel (680 words)

	Synablog » Blog Archive » Jewish Emergent!
		Synagogue 3000 has identified a contemporary Jewish religious phenomenon that it is calling Jewish Emergent.
		In many ways they are where the Emergent Christian group was in 1996-97, as it formed within The Leadership Network.
		The conversation across traditions allows us to understand more clearly what the “Emergent” phenomenon is. Within each tradition, there are two broad streams: a “congregational” stream based in communities of practice, and an “encounter-based” stream based in individual spiritual expression.
	synagogue3000.org /synablog/?p=11 (799 words)

	Russell Roberts, The Reality of Markets: Library of Economics and Liberty
		These "solutions" treat the outcomes of an emergent process as if they were the temperature on the thermostat.
		Understanding the emergent phenomena economists call a market is the essence of the economic way of thinking.
		Trying to change emergent results is inherently more complex than building a bridge or expanding your kitchen or even putting a man on the moon.
	www.econlib.org /library/Columns/y2005/Robertsmarkets.html (2345 words)

	[Leibniz, thought emergent or all the way down] - A New Kind of Science: The NKS Forum
		To me one of the clear results of NKS (indeed even there in precursors), is that universality is an emergent phenomenon, a matter of arrangements and not of special elements.
		Emergent properties usually have some similarity; even in the sodium plus chlorine case, salt has chemical properties, as do the other 2.
		The overall behavior is. Universality is a pretty remarkable phenomenon, and to see how soon and how simply it can arise to me suggests our intuitions about how supposedly impossible it must be to get from elements of character A to wholes of character B can be very far from correct.
	forum.wolframscience.com /archive/topic/63-1.html (7299 words)

	The Reference Frame: Emergent space and emergent time
		On the other hand, the mystery of emergent time is a great question - David Gross was exactly mentioning this puzzle in his talk at the KITP.
		Special relativity guraantees that if space is emergent, time must be emergent as well.
		If one says that time is emergent, the idea of predicting the future from the past must be approximate and emergent as well.
	motls.blogspot.com /2004/10/emergent-space-and-emergent-time.html (1544 words)

	Where is the Mind? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Since the emergent phenomenon’s physical properties are the very particles themselves, the phenomenon (as distinct from the particles) adds nothing useful to the organism.
		So when a materialist tells us emergent phenomena cannot be fully explained by the underlying atomic activity, this is either (A), an acknowledgment that humans are limited in their ability to analyze emergent phenomena in terms of their true underlying causes, or (B), it’s an admission that emergent phenomena have no underlying atomic structure.
		Okay, then you don't believe the emergent phenomenon is explicible in terms of particles and their activity.
	debatingchristianity.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=73796 (1892 words)

	Emergent Phenomenon Research Group: AmdahlsLaw
		Therefore, adding more computers won't speed up the processing at all after a point.
		However, there are some emergent computations that appear to be super linear: they speed up a computation more than N times faster.
		Of course, this emergent property isn't magic; it can be explained by information transmission: the more places that information can be exchanged, the more powerful a compuation can be.
	emergent.brynmawr.edu /eprg/?page=AmdahlsLaw (139 words)

	Center for Science in Society
		Here you have to think of the growth of the Tree of Life, and the fractal-like form of the tree emerges from all the various lineages bifurcating off of one another.
		The emergent phenomenon is organization, and the agents can be anything in the "lower" levels: atoms, molecules, macromolecules, cells.
		Yes: the global shape of the dough was a collaboration between the dough and the balloon.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /local/scisoc/emergence/wong12feb04.html (581 words)

	Pragmatics as an emergent phenomenon: evidence from communication impairment
		Pragmatics as an emergent phenomenon: evidence from communication impairment
		In this paper I will argue for an account of pragmatics which sees it neither as component nor perspective, but instead as the emergent outcome of interactions between cognitive, linguistic and sensorimotor processes during human interaction.
		My evidence for this approach comes from extensive attempts to characterize the nature of a wide variety of pragmatic impairments in individuals with communication disorders (Perkins, 2003).
	webhost.ua.ac.be /tisp/viewpaper.php?id=75&print=1 (341 words)

	Russell Moore on Bugs Bunny and the 'Emergent' Phenomenon
		Posted: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 at 11:43 pm ET Russell Moore takes an interesting angle on the 'Emergent' church movement in an article posted at the site of the Carl F. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement.
		And so, evangelicalism 'reinvents' itself—in the image of a brooding, angst-ridden twenty-something coffeehouse culture." More: "Of course, there is more than one expression of the 'emergent' phenomenon—and not all of it is bad.
		Some of the worship practices that are emerging from the emergent church are an improvement on the canned infotainment of standard evangelical fare.
	www.albertmohler.com /blog_read.php?id=41 (209 words)

	Emergence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is otherwise with emergents, when, instead of adding measurable motion to measurable motion, or things of one kind to other individuals of their kind, there is a co-operation of things of unlike kinds.
		But if, on the other hand, systems can have qualities not directly traceable to the system's components, but rather to how those components interact, and one is willing to accept that a system supervenes on its components, then it is difficult to account for an emergent property's cause.
		Classical mechanics: The laws of classical mechanics can be said to emerge as a limiting case from the rules of quantum mechanics applied to large enough masses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emergent_phenomenon (3944 words)

	Safe Haven \| Real Bills: an Emergent Market Phenomenon
		In this sense, it may be misleading to refer to the theory of the emergence of real bills as a "doctrine".
		Adam Smith's doctrine refers to a free market phenomenon that is robust and capable of ferreting out rare, isolated cases of fraud.
		We have seen that Adam Smith's RBD describes an emergent phenomenon whereby the "invisible hand" of the free market effectively allocates goods in urgent demand to the consumer.
	www.safehaven.com /article-3846.htm (8302 words)

	Americans for a Free Republic
		Adam Smith's doctrine refers to a free market phenomenon that is robust and capable of ferreting out rare, isolated cases of fraud.
		We have seen that Adam Smith's RBD describes an emergent phenomenon whereby the "invisible hand" of the free market effectively allocates goods in urgent demand to the consumer.
		It is unfortunate that this theory of an observed free market phenomenon has been confused with the "central banker's" FBD, which attempts to centrally manage the "money supply".
	www.afr.org /editorials/koures/092505.html (8266 words)

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