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

6 Post author: Alicorn 09 July 2010 06:54AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 09 July 2010 08:55:14PM 0 points [-]

Er, did you read the grandparent comment?

Comment author: Blueberry 09 July 2010 09:01:13PM *  2 points [-]

Yes. My point was that emergence isn't about what we know how to derive from lower-level descriptions, it's about what we can easily see and predict from lower-level descriptions. Like Roko, I want my definition of emergence to include the ideal gas laws (and I haven't heard the word used to exclude them).

Also see this comment.