Almost-anywhere theories: Reductionism and universality of emergence

Complexity

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 11-19

  Licata, Ignazio ^a  

^a Institute for Scientific Methodology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classical and quantum information; Collective phenomena; Intrinsic and computational emergence; Reductionism; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954279321     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20307     Document Type: Article

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