Weak emergence has been offered as an explication of
the ubiquitous notion of emergence used in complexity
science (Bedau 1997). After outlining the problem of
emergence and comparing weak emergence with the two
other main objectivist approaches to emergence, this
paper explains a version of weak emergence and
illustrates it with cellular automata. Then it explains
the sort of downward causation and explanatory autonomy
involved in weak emergence
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%1 bedau-downward-causation-and-2002
%A Bedau, Mark A.
%D 2002
%J Principia
%K MSc _checked emergence
%N 1
%P 5--50
%T Downward Causation and the Autonomy of Weak
Emergence
%V 6
%X Weak emergence has been offered as an explication of
the ubiquitous notion of emergence used in complexity
science (Bedau 1997). After outlining the problem of
emergence and comparing weak emergence with the two
other main objectivist approaches to emergence, this
paper explains a version of weak emergence and
illustrates it with cellular automata. Then it explains
the sort of downward causation and explanatory autonomy
involved in weak emergence
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the ubiquitous notion of emergence used in complexity
science (Bedau 1997). After outlining the problem of
emergence and comparing weak emergence with the two
other main objectivist approaches to emergence, this
paper explains a version of weak emergence and
illustrates it with cellular automata. Then it explains
the sort of downward causation and explanatory autonomy
involved in weak emergence},
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