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...rging. Anything with this default-converging shape are "alive," in some way. An emergent phenomena greater than the sum of its parts. Businesses are also alive, as are cities. They feed on entropy, using the internal movement to create emergent coh...
... consolidation because of gravity. Gravity shows up in physics and also in many emergent phenomena due to preferential attachment. When a system has gotten to its late stage, it's consolidated. It's a kind of heat death. But a lot of interesting th...
...can only see parts, not whole. Science is inherently reductionist. Lichen is an emergent phenomena of two organisms in symbiosis.
Emergent phenomena can't be understood by reductionism. If you reduce the phenoma's comlexity past a critical threshold, the emergent phenomena evaporates. If you only ...
Emergent phenomena (like power dynamics) are never primary. They're always secondary. Abstract, not concrete. They are impossible to show concretely to people. Even whe...
...t even amongst a ton of noise. That force powers evolution and other beneficial emergent phenomena. But it can also power malignant emergent phenomena. It's not just that the chatbot form factor leads to sycosocial relationships that can be dangero...
Emergent phenomena are structurally impossible to explain in a clear, obvious way. Understanding emergence requires at least two ply reasoning.
...s at enough scale can emerge even from noisy streams" phenomena that powers all emergent phenomena–including evolutionary gradients.
A slippery slope is an example of an emergent phenomena of noisy signal with consistent bias. No individual step is that bad, obscured by noise. The bias is in one direction: the gravity of incentives. So ...
... gives compounding momentum. This is a metaphor for finding consensus and other emergent phenomena. The more degrees of freedom in the possibility space, the less likely the outcomes randomly cohere. Constraints reduce the degrees of freedom, makin...
...talking to a collection of synapses." We can all agree that the collective, the emergent phenomena of all of the synapses creates something larger than the sum of its parts: a person. Also,that the person is more important than any of their constit...
...ing process is where a swarm of intentional human activity leads to macro-scale emergent phenomena. No individual human's decision matters that much, the emergent process does. In what conditions does a social sifting process create more quality? W...
... you get nearly infinite value created for a small amount of effort. It uses an emergent phenomena to capture an emergent phenomena. You just need to plant the seed and water it; it will grow into a majestic oak tree on its own. These kinds of situ...
If you anthropomorphize an emergent phenomena you will never understand it. You can't go anywhere from that category error of a singular intelligence applied to what is fundamentally a swarm inte...
I find Ursus Wehrli's images beautiful but grotesque. He takes organic, emergent phenomena and then tidies them up. For example, a sprig of a pine tree branch is decomposed into the individual straight twigs, sorted by length, and the indiv...