DanielLC comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2007 10:10PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 06 August 2011 05:42:57PM 0 points [-]

I think that the point is that emergence is in the mind of the observer. If the observer is describing the situation at the particle level, then superconductivity is not there regardless of the size of the collection of particles considered. But, when you describe things at the flowing-electric-fluid level, then superconductivity may emerge.

Comment author: DanielLC 07 August 2011 12:38:35AM 0 points [-]

Conductivity isn't there either unless you describe them at the flowing-electric-fluid level.