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1. Transformational Emergence
Paul Humphreys, Emergence (OUP, 2016) I thank the editors of the Brains Blog for extending this invitation, despite the fact that I am not an expert in neuroscience and related areas of philosophy....
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2. The Origin of the Universe Argument
Paul Humphreys, Emergence (OUP, 2016) Yesterday we saw, via an example from social psychology, that diachronic approaches to emergence can avoid some of the major problems of synchronic approaches....
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3. Two Types of Fundamentality
Paul Humphreys, Emergence (OUP, 2016) Today’s entry addresses a type of argument that will be familiar to most of you, the argument that all higher level natural facts in our world logically supervene...
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4. Conceptual Emergence and Neural Networks
Conceptual emergence occurs when, in order to understand or effectively represent some phenomenon, a different representational apparatus must be introduced at the current working level. Such changes...
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