After reading: Strong Emergence Arising from Weak Emergence
See abstract at bottom of this blog:
a) Don’t bother reading this article. The abstract says enough. The authors applied state of the art analysis tools. Their conclusion: Predictions of emergent phenomena, appearing on the macroscopic layer of a complex system, can fail if they are made by a microscopic
model.
b) How did meaning emerge in my brain as I read this next to the Calatrava bridge in Dallas. 3000 people are running a long distance race. The runners were in small clusters, like in the game of life (GOL) that the authors study. Yes some of the clusters are friends, but
others are clustering for other or no reason.
c) Maybe the meaning of complex is ‘phenomena we don’t understand, yet’ so?
About the Author:
Roger F. Malina is a space scientist and astronomer, with a specialty in extreme and ultraviolet astronomy, space instrumentation and optics. He served as director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence and was NASA Principal Investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Satellite project at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a publisher and editor in the new emerging research fields that connect the sciences and engineering to the arts, design and humanities. Since 1982, he has served as Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at MIT Press. He founded, and serves on the board of two nonprofits, ISAST in San Francisco and OLATS in Paris, which advocate and document the work of artists involved in contemporary science and technology.
He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, at the University of Texas at Dallas and Directeur de Recherche for the CNRS in France. He serves as the Associate Director of ATEC, and founded the ArtSciLab in the ATEC program fall 2013.