concept

emergent property

Also known as: emergent property, emergent properties

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Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 18, 2017 2 facts

claimThomas Nagel defines 'emergent' properties of a complex system as properties that cannot be intelligibly derived from the properties of the system's parts.

claimEmergentist panpsychists define 'emergent' properties of a complex system as fundamental macro-level properties, which may or may not be intelligibly derived from the properties of the system's parts.

Compendium Vol. 5 No. 1: The ecological role of native plants bio4climate.org Bio4Climate 2 facts

claimWhile individual plant species are distributed according to abiotic environmental conditions, their co-location with other species results in interspecies interactions, which function as ecosystem processes or emergent properties.

claimAlthough populations of participating species in a plant community are usually distributed individualistically across the landscape, they may interact to build an integrated unit with emergent properties.

Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Paul C Mocombe · Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research Jan 29, 2024 2 facts

claimFeinberg E T and Mallatt J argued in 2020 that phenomenal consciousness is an emergent property and that the explanatory gap can be eliminated.

claimFesce R proposed in 2020 that subjectivity is an emergent property of information processing by neuronal networks.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy May 23, 2001 2 facts

referenceThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Panpsychism lists related entries including George Berkeley, consciousness, René Descartes, dualism, emergent properties, epiphenomenalism, Charles Hartshorne, William James, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, mereology, monism, neutral monism, pantheism, physicalism, qualia, quantum theory and consciousness, Josiah Royce, Baruch Spinoza, Alfred North Whitehead, and Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt.

perspectiveThomas Nagel argues that there are no truly emergent properties of complex systems, asserting that all properties of complex systems derive from the properties of their constituents and their effects on each other.

Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Frontiers in Robotics and AI Apr 17, 2018 1 fact

claimThe externalist approach to machine consciousness eliminates the need for biological material, emergent properties, appeals to quantum mechanics, or unobservable properties.

Non-Reductive Physicalism - Theories of Consciousness theoriesofconsciousness.com Theories of Consciousness 1 fact

quoteYujin Nagasawa states: "The existence of complex material objects requires us to acknowledge emergent properties that are not merely the sum of their parts."

Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy May 23, 2001 1 fact

quoteThomas Nagel stated in his 1979 article 'Panpsychism': 'there are no truly emergent properties of complex systems. All properties of complex systems that are not relations between it and something else derive from the properties of its constituents and their effects on each other when so combined.'