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[2410.15468] What Emergence Can Possibly Mean

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Abstract:We consider emergence from the perspective of dynamics: states of a system evolving with time. We focus on the role of a decomposition of wholes into parts, and attempt to characterize relationships between levels without reference to whether higher-level properties are "novel" or "unexpected." We offer a classification of different varieties of emergence, with and without new ontological elements at higher levels.

What Emergence Can Possibly Mean Sean M. Carroll,1 and Achyth Parola2 1 Johns Hopkins University and Santa Fe Institute, seancarroll@gmail.com 2 Johns Hopkins University, aparola1@jhu.edu arXiv:2410.15468v1 [physics.hist-ph] 20 Oct…

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