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EmergenceCourse

1. Emergence Course Topics

  1. What is emergence?

    1. "The Whole is greater than the sum of the parts"

    2. Levels

    3. Self-organization

    4. Phase transitions

    5. The local interaction of small pieces

  2. History of Emergent studies

  3. Why important?

  4. Examples of emergence

    1. Ants

    2. neurons

    3. small world

    4. Conway's "Game of Life"

  5. Emergence and the idea of "level"

    1. Physics

    2. Chemistry

    3. Biology

    4. Psychology

    5. Sociology

  6. Emergent computation

    1. Super-linear performance increases

    2. Evolving complexity

    3. Network of Einsteins

  7. Emergence in computer science

    1. SAT problems show phase transition

  8. Emergence as a new law/new science

    1. Information Theory (Shannon)

    2. Entropy (physics and computer science)

    3. Second Law of Thermodynamics (connection to humanists via C.P. Snow's "Shakespeare analogy")

    4. Kauffman

    5. Wolfram