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This page is designed to explore the timeline of ideas of emergence: how they developed, and how they affected others. After a substantial flow of ideas emerges, we'll turn this into a diagram to help visualize it.
Please help create this resource! People are listed in chronological birth order.
The story of emergence would not be complete without exploring the influence of the reductionism of the atomists.
== Aristotle, 384 BC - 322 BC ==
== Democritus, 460 BC - 370 BC ==
More: www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html,
In The Wealth of Nations (1776), Smith makes the claim that, within the system of capitalism, an individual acting for his own good tends also to promote the good of his community. He attributed this principle to a social mechanism that he called the "Invisible Hand."
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
More: www.iep.utm.edu/k/kantmeta.htm, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant
More: plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/
Emergence as a "philosophical sense" in his 1875 Problems of Life and Mind.
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Lewes
More: www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html,
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
Rhizome Versus Trees. 1980. Rpt. The Deleuze Reader. Ed. Constantin Boundas. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993: 27-36.
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
1982."The Origin of Language: Biology, Information Theory and Thermodynamics." Chapter 7. Hermes. Ed. J. Harari and D. Bell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Serres
A City Is Not a Tree 1965. (Architectual Forum.Rpt. The City Reader. Ed. Richard LeGates and Frederick Stout. New York: Routledge, 1996: 119-131.
Alexander is the inventor the wiki. Will Wright has written that Alexander's work was influential in the origin of The Sims computer game, and in his most recent work (Spores?).
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander
More: www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/