Strengthening Weak Emergence.
I offer an improved version of Bedau's influential (Philos Perspect 11:375–99, 1997) account of weak emergence in light of insights from information theory. Bedau analyzes weak emergence in terms of the non-derivability of a system's macrostates from its microstates except by simulation. However, no...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 87; no. 5; pp. 2457 - 2475 |
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