word
emergentism
ih-MER-jent-iz-um
ɪˈmɜːrdʒəntɪzəmListen
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emergentism
Dictionary meaning
the philosophical position that complex systems exhibit genuine properties and causal powers that arise from interactions among their components but cannot be predicted from or reduced to the properties of those components alone; strong emergence holds that emergent properties are ontologically novel and irreducible, while weak emergence allows that they are in principle derivable but practically unpredictable; relevant to consciousness, life, and social phenomena as candidate cases of genuinely emergent features of physical reality
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