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diff --git a/mindmap/emergence.org b/mindmap/emergence.org index 9a146cf..9c975a5 100644 --- a/mindmap/emergence.org +++ b/mindmap/emergence.org @@ -6,4 +6,27 @@ #+html_head: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> * Emergence systems are… -Many things. +Existent in many forms and at many levels. They are the fundamental building +block of everything that exists, I argue, and nothing in this theory of +everything will contradict this statement! + +** What is Emergence? +Emergence can be broadly defined as a system whose components organize themselves +into a larger structure via simpler rules that each component follows. + +Entire systems such as [[id:a6bc601a-7910-44bb-afd5-dffa5bc869b1][mathematics]] can be explained in terms of a couple axioms, +where all the theorems arising from those axioms are emergent from those axioms. +At least, that is a relatively simple explanation, and does not capture the full +beauty of emergent systems. Therefore, I call apoun an example from daily life: + +*** Societies +At every scale, societies exhibit properties of emergence. For example, families +and small communities comprise small areas of town, which comprise cities, +which then make up provinces, and finally countries. In this particular example, +we self organize into self-similar [[id:8f265f93-e5fd-4150-a845-a60ab7063164][recursive]] hierarchies. This is for a good reason; +in order for societies to scale, there need to be abstractions. Each level in the +hierarchy conveys more but less exact information, until we get to the national +level which deals the most with aggregates. + +*** Markets Emergent +To use a particular hierarchy example, markets are emergent from barter in goods. |