Is weak emergence just in the mind?

Minds and Machines

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-459

  Bedau, Mark A ^a,b  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b European School of Molecular Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational emergence; Dynamic emergence; Epistemological emergence; Explanatory incompressibility; Micro causal network; Micro causal web; Weak emergence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EMERGENCE; DYNAMIC EMERGENCE; EPISTEMOLOGICAL EMERGENCE; EXPLANATORY INCOMPRESSIBILITY; MICRO-CAUSAL NETWORK; MICRO-CAUSAL WEB; WEAK EMERGENCE;

MACROS;

EID: 57049106774     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-008-9122-6     Document Type: Article

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