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Fundamental?
Emily Adlam

In Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster & Zeeya Merali (eds.), What is Fundamental?, Springer Verlag. pp. 5-12. 2019.

It’s family games night, and we’re playing a guessing game. My mother—not a physicist—picks up a card and says, ‘A fundamental particle.’
What Emergence Can Possibly Mean
Sean M. Carroll and Achyuth Parola

We consider emergence from the perspective of dynamics: states of a system evolving with time. We focus on the role of a decomposition of wholes into parts, and attempt to characterize relationships between levels without reference to whether higher-level properties are “novel” or “unexpected.” We offer a classification of different varieties of emergence, with and without new ontological elements at higher levels. Submitted to a volume on Real Patterns (Tyler Milhouse, ed.), to be published by …Read more
We consider emergence from the perspective of dynamics: states of a system evolving with time. We focus on the role of a decomposition of wholes into parts, and attempt to characterize relationships between levels without reference to whether higher-level properties are “novel” or “unexpected.” We offer a classification of different varieties of emergence, with and without new ontological elements at higher levels. Submitted to a volume on Real Patterns (Tyler Milhouse, ed.), to be published by MIT Press.

Attila Egri-Nagy