emergent
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- adjective
- /ɪˈmɜrdʒənt/
- Formal
- Those interactions between neurons and between different parts of the brain actually result in emergent properties.
- emergent properties
- emergent phenomena
- emergent complexity
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Watch on YouTubeAdam Terry asks, do you think consciousness is emergent or fundamental?
- Adam Terry asks, do you think consciousness is emergent or fundamental?
- Anyway, you tweeted that things only look emergent because we can't see time.
- You get new emergent behaviour, as it's often called.
- That's the arrow of time that's emergent or fundamental, we don't know I guess.
- I say that it's this kind of bottom up emergent way that you should try and find passion.
- These ideas often claim that space and time are themselves emergent.
- So nature manages to use fundamentally simple principles to power emergent complexity.
- That is, consciousness is an emergent property of the brain and does not survive death.
- It is still an open question whether or not emergent intelligence is what consciousness is.
- Those interactions between neurons and between different parts of the brain actually result in emergent properties.
- And what it says is that the universe, the universe, space-time is an emergent phenomenon from consciousness.
- So order at the beginning, time is immersion, causation is emergent.
- It transcends this state and you get this sudden reorganization of the emergent patterns of activity in the cortex.
Examples
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Researchers observed that social networks exhibit emergent properties when participants interact in unanticipated ways.
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And a lot of people are satisfied to say that this is an emergent property of atoms bumping into each other.
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And out of that comes emergent properties.
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But yeah, so you just see all these really cool emergent effects that are.
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Why do we think that space and time are emergent and not fundamental?
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You get new emergent behaviour, as it's often called.
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So it's, it seems to be a surprisingly emergent feature of many of these models.
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That is, consciousness is an emergent property of the brain and does not survive death.
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The codes then were grouped into emergent patterns in order to identify themes.
Academic text (2015) -
Living systems like student programs have emergent properties (O'Connor and McDermott, 1997) that cannot always be predicted.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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Starting to appear and become important
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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A theory that new qualities appear during the history of life and cannot be predicted from what came before
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emergent comes from the Latin emergere, whose parts e- 'out' and mergere 'to sink' give the idea 'to rise out'. In science, think of new behaviour that 'rises out' when many simple parts work together, so emergent means a property or pattern that appears from the whole system.