orthonormal comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 09 July 2010 03:39:54PM *  0 points [-]

I agree. But given that outsiders use the term all the time, and given that they can point to a reasonably large cluster of things (which are adequately contained in the definition I offered), it might be more helpful to say that emergence is a statement of a known unknown (in particular, a missing reduction between levels) than to refuse to use the term entirely, which can appear to be ignoring phenomena.