Emergence

Definition

In general, emergence occurs when an entity manifest properties its parts do not show on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a larger whole.

Emergence is a central concept with respect to the dynamics ot Systems. It is a concept strongly related to Complexity. It is through the complex interaction, the complex organization of elementary events into more complex events that emergence manifests itself as new and different properties and behaviors of the processes which make up the dynamics of the systems.

What produces emergence?

How emergence is produced?

What different kinds or levels of emergence do exist?

What emerges?

Relations between Events, or between Processes of related (or correlated) Events. Relations between Events, or Processes, produce Properties and Behaviors. In other words, from the Inter-Action of Events, new and more complex Action, new and more complex Relations, form new and more complex Information, that produces new and more complex Structures of Information, of Forms that compose the Reality.

Common definition

Links to Wikipedia pages:

• Emergence
• Emergence_(disambiguation)
• Information
• Complexity
• Complexity_(disambiguation)

See also

• Information
• Complexity
• Dynamics of Information
• Theory of Evolution

Links to the related sections of the TFNR Paper

• TFNR - Information: the evolution toward complexity
• TFNR - Evolution: the Dynamics of Information
• TFNR - The role of emergence in the construction of Reality

Classification

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