Re: Review: Engaging view of emergence



Sam Wormley wrote:
> Engaging view of emergence (Jul 6)
> http://physicsweb.org/article/review/18/7/1
>
> A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down
> Robert B Laughlin
> 2005 Basic Books 272pp

An emergence theory of science is the level
of analysis.

And to define science itself as always
simply "....."

And in the last sentence there is a
missing word because the book writer has a hard
time communicating the exact relationship
of one science to another.

And so the concept of the anti-reductionist
definition is apparently substituted.

Making the describer, a reductionist.

And so to merely state the behavior discovered
without seeking the simple relation of emergence
is the kind of scientific revolution discussed.

And here the concept of the natural relation
is introduced to warn the reader that classical
theory is also of the science the book writer
states.

A simple theory relation has the causality of
the emergent state. Making the complex
easily placed in theory.

Douglas Eagleson
Gaithersburg, MD USa

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