Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence |
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Authors: | Paul Humphreys |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA |
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Abstract: | I discuss here a number of different kinds of diachronic emergence, noting that they differ in important ways from synchronic
conceptions. I argue that Bedau’s weak emergence has an essentially historical aspect, in that there can be two indistinguishable
states, one of which is weakly emergent, the other of which is not. As a consequence, weak emergence is about tokens, not
types, of states. I conclude by examining the question of whether the concept of weak emergence is too weak and note that
there is at present no unifying account of diachronic and synchronic concepts of emergence.
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Keywords: | Weak emergence Supervenience Pattern emergence Cellular automaton Randomness |
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