creators_name: Brown, Steven Ravett
creators_id: digiravett@mac.com
editors_name: Moser, Paul
editors_id: Editor
type: journalp
datestamp: 2009-10-15 22:55:28
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:25
metadata_visibility: show
title: Reentrant emergence
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: neuro-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: emergence; epistemology; philosophy of mind; relaxation time; 
abstract: Emergent properties (EPs) are not causally reducible to the properties of a complex system’s elements. If a system’s properties cannot be reduced to those of any of its components, then that system is effectively a singular entity (SE). EPs are thus not properties of known complexes, but of SEs. A precise description of the parameters necessary to observe a physical system as an SE is thus necessary to establish under what conditions properties are understood as emergent. That description is provided in terms of the temporal dynamics of systems and their internal/external interactions. 
date: 2009-06
date_type: published
publication: American Philosophical Quarterly
volume: 46
number: 3
pagerange: 225-238
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Brown, Dr. Steven Ravett  (2009) Reentrant emergence.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6629/1/Brown-_Reentrant_emergence.pdf