Contextual emergence in the description of properties

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1753-1777

  Bishop, Robert C ^a   Atmanspacher, Harald ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institut Für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextual emergence; Contextual observables; Molecular shape; Stability; Temperature; Topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751541359     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-006-9082-8     Document Type: Article

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