Emergent Entity
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| - | '''Emergent entities''' are properties, patterns or substances which 'arise' out of more fundamental entities through an [[Emergence|emergence]] process. A property of a system is emergent, if it is not a property of any fundamental element. Emergent entities are not reducible. Although they arise out of more fundamental items, they are 'novel' or 'irreducible' with respect to them. Emergent properties are dependent on underlying processes, and yet independent from underlying processes. This is the paradox of emergence. | + | '''Emergent entities''' are properties, patterns or substances which 'arise' out of more fundamental entities through an [[Emergence|emergence]] process. A property of a system is emergent, if it is not a property of any fundamental element. |
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| + | : "Emergent properties are collective properties, which means they are properties of collections, not properties of individual parts. The cause can often be traced back to the interactions between the parts of which a system is made." ~ Raima Larter | ||
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| + | Emergent entities are not reducible. Although they arise out of more fundamental items, they are 'novel' or 'irreducible' with respect to them. Emergent properties are dependent on underlying processes, and yet independent from underlying processes. This is the paradox of emergence. | ||
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