Quotes About Emergence

In general, then, a universal characteristic of a complex system is that the whole is greater than, and often significantly different from, the simple linear sum of its parts.

is a collective emergent agglomeration resulting from nonlinear social and organizational interactions

After the war, liberal theology, the emergence of the Social Gospel, and a growing faith in science competed with a rising fundamentalism.22

The blind spot of AI is that consciousness does not emerge from thought; it is the source of

I was mourning the old me. For the new me to emerge, the old me had to disappear, and killing her bit by bit hurt.

We are what we think. Our being emerges from our thoughts. Our thoughts construct the world," the monk told her telepathically.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Maybe it's an artistic genius thing. People who go so deep inside themselves, especially when they're working, that they seem like sleepwalkers when they emerge. Traces of unconsciousness seem to cling to them, lending them an otherworldly sheen.

When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does--distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73).

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

I'd like to eventually be known as someone who emerged as a songwriter.

Miami has grown into one of the biggest Southern places next to Atlanta when it comes down to music. It just grew out of nowhere.

Complex systems are full of interdependencies—hard to detect—and nonlinear responses.

complex systems do not have obvious one-dimensional cause-and-effect mechanisms, and that under opacity, you do not mess with such a system.

The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in ways not predicted by its components.

Ex cura theoria nascitur.

Mark Buchanan's Ubiquity, Philip Ball's Critical Mass, and Paul Ormerod's Why Most Things Fail.

By throwing enough words together, some unusual and magical-sounding metaphor is bound to emerge according to the laws of combinatorics.

as the sum becomes increasingly different from the parts.

Outcomes are paradoxically more stable under the minority rule—the variance of the results is lower and the rule is more likely to emerge independently across separate populations.

What emerges from the minority rule is more likely to be black-and-white, binary rules.