Emergence
Emergence
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DOI:
10.1007/s10670-007-9047-0
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发表时间:
2007
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影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
B. Marshall
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作者:
B. Marshall
Here I offer a precise analysis of what it takes for a property to count asemergent. The features widely considered crucial to emergence includenovelty,unpredictability,supervenience,relationality, anddownward causal influence. By acknowledging each of these distinctive features, the definition provided below captures an important sense in which the whole can be more than the sum of its parts.