From: chinagreenelvis@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:32:49 PM UTC-4, myriadsma...@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > "Sometimes called emergentism."   
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   > "In philosophy, emergentism is the belief in emergence, particularly as it   
   involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts (or   
   not) with reductionism. A property of a system is said to be emergent if it is   
   a new outcome of some    
   other properties of the system and their interaction, while it is itself   
   different from them.[1] Emergent properties are not identical with, reducible   
   to, or deducible from the other properties. The different ways in which this   
   independence requirement    
   can be satisfied lead to variant types of emergence."   
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   > More at the link...   
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   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergentism   
      
   I've heard the term used mostly in terms of AI and consciousness.   
      
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