Emergence vs. Reductionism: Do Complex Systems Create New Reality?
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Emergence vs. Reductionism: Do Complex Systems Create New Reality?
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We explore strong emergence, where higher-level properties cannot be derived from their parts, and contrast it with reductionist views that place ultimate causal power in fundamental physics.
Through examples like water’s liquidity and bird murmurations, we examine multiple realizability and the controversial idea of downward causation, where collective patterns seem to influence individual components. The episode concludes by proposing a synthesis: emergence as a real organizational feature of the world, one that demands explanation across multiple scientific levels.
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