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Emergence

“The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep.”. Emergence. Newton’s Laws. T. S. Eliot on time. Time present and time past Are perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. From Burnt Norton. Two Arrows of Time. Entropy. Emergence.

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Emergence

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  1. “The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep.” Emergence

  2. Newton’s Laws

  3. T. S. Eliot on time Time present and time past Are perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. From Burnt Norton

  4. Two Arrows of Time Entropy Emergence

  5. From C. S. Lewis’ Perelandra After earths, not better earths but beasts; after beasts, not better beasts, but spirits. After a falling, not a recovery but a new creation. Out of the new creation, not a third but the mode of change itself is changed for ever.

  6. Benard Cells

  7. It’s not a closed system. It’s a non-linear system. It’s far from equilibrium. It’s big enough. There’s an iterative feedback mechanism at work. It’s extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Seven points

  8. Those were computer simulations! We could not have predicted these patterns from the equations alone, but we can compute them (with a sufficiently large computer). The seventh point

  9. The Logistic Equation

  10. Every point is determined by an equation. Because of chaos, most points are unpredictable. Pattern emerges from chaos. All this happens because of non-linear iteration. Important points

  11. The ultimate fractal The mandelbrot set are complex numbers

  12. Things in the real world can be unpredictable even when they are in principle determined by the laws of physics. Complex structure emerges unpredictably when non-linear systems are iterated. The argument so far

  13. Is this the whole story?? The big question

  14. Dualism Reductionism Emergentism Three answers

  15. Causes and explanations of higher-order events must be given in terms intrinsic to each particular level of natural reality. Emergentism -- definition

  16. Logical consistency Life in a rational universe Life in a moral universe “Top-down” arguments, i.e. theology Arguments in favor

  17. God = nature: pantheism God is an emergent property of the universe. God created the universe but stands outside it: deism. God has two natures: temporal theism Eschatological theism: the future is a causal agent on the present. Five flavors of theology

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