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Emergent Behaviour

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-16 14:16

Statement:A complex system behaves smarter than the sum of its parts.

Question: If a ~1.5 Kg. system of neural tissue produces the human        consciousness,what would emerge from a system of every particle in the universe?

Just some fuel for thought :)

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-16 16:06

>>3
Animals and humans are made of those particles with 0 intelligence.This is emergence-production of something more complex than the stuff it is made of.

By 'smart',i mean complex.In that way,yes-computers are smart.

>>4
You know,i thought about this,and came up to the conclusion that there couldn't be any emergence from the universe-for example:a colony of ants builds it's nest more complex than a single ant could.It works on certain material,let's call this data.As we are talking about the whole universe,there isn't any outside data to work on,so for something to emerge from it more complex than the particles it is made of,it would have to change something in itself.which,if i'm not mistaken,isn't possible.So yeah,my philosophy phails :(

 

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