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arXiv:2410.15468physics.hist-ph

What Emergence Can Possibly Mean

Sean M. Carroll, Achyuth Parola

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We consider emergence from the perspective of dynamics: states of a system evolving with time. We focus on the role of a decomposition of wholes into parts, and attempt to characterize relationships between levels without reference to whether higher-level properties are "novel" or "unexpected." We offer a classification of different varieties of emergence, with and without new ontological elements at higher levels.

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Submitted to a volume on Real Patterns (Tyler Milhouse, ed.), to be published by MIT Press
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physics.hist-phHistory and Philosophy of Physics cond-mat.stat-mechStatistical Mechanics

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    • While I'm a big fan of that paper, as a ML researcher I can confidently state that it is not well accepted. I can also confidently state that it is not well known. I think there is a critical flaw in the paper though. Not critical from a technical standpoint, but from a reviewer…

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