Whilst I appreciate the validity of criticism offered here of the use of the word emergence (by itself) as if were an explanation sufficient unto itself - I think it a little harsh. To call it "futile" is almost acting as semantic stop sign itself for the term.
We need to take a little time to properly understand what is meant by emergence when used properly.
First that it is an observation rather than an explnation. But an observation with useful descriptive power since it observes that the phenomena under consideration is a process with properti...
Hi Capla - no that is not what Godel's theorem says (actually there are two incompleteness theorems)
1) Godel's theorems don't talk about what is knowable - only about what is (formally) provable in a mathematical or logic sense
2) The first incompleteness theorem states that no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an any sort of algorithm is capable of proving all truths about the relations of the natural numbers. In other words for any such system, there will always be statements about the natural numbers that are true, but that are ...
I really enjoyed reading this. Quite concise, well organised and I thought quite comprehensive (nothing is ever exhaustive so no need to apologise on that front). I will find this a very useful resource and while nothing in it was completely "new" to me I found the structure really helped me to think more clearly about this. So thanks.
A suggestion - might be useful to turn your attention more to specific process steps using the attention directing classification tools outlined here. For example
Step 1: Identify type of risk (transparent, Opaque, K... (read more)