Downward Causation and the Autonomy of Weak Emergence

• Bedau, Mark ^[1]
  1. [1] Reed College

     Reed College

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Principia: an international journal of epistemology, ISSN-e 1808-1711, Vol. 6, Nº. 1, 2002, págs. 5-50
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Weak emergence has been offered as an explicatzon of the ubiquztous notum of emergence used m complexity science After outinung the problem of emergence and comparmg weak emergence with the two other nuun objecuvist approaches to emergence, the paper explams a vetsion of weak emergence and illustrcues at with cellular automata Then it explcans the sart of downward causattan and explanatory auumomy mvolved m weak ernergence.