Every middle school student, who pay attention to math, know that 'any length is equal to the sum of its infinite number of shorter segments. However ...
I am troubled with iconic image of Aristotle, especially with the wisdom of his “whole before its parts”. It started with a famous paradox put forward...
I would like to make clear that the panpsychism I advocated is not about 'mater' and 'mind'. It is about 'some entities' which behavior could be descr...
I expected you will offer an example where emergence shows advantage compare to reductionism. I don't think this is a case. The holistic approach, as ...
You are explaining one puzzle (emergence) using another puzzle (self-organization) The spontaneous self organization, including hierarchically organiz...
First, I just want to remind that co-ordination is not an external factor, but the property of each individual player, so the quality of the team, as ...
Indeed my last post sounds like my conviction is based on my believe regardless of evidence. My fault. Instead I am open to discus any evidences that ...
Per wiki, self-organization is a process where order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. As I understand, ...
'I' is the result of very specific complex interactions between self-organized chemical components forming the living system, while the same chemical ...
The example of water is often used to justify the emergence phenomenon. The mistake in this example is that the water (the way we experience it) is no...
I am a layman trying to understand Aristotle's ideas about "whole and parts". By reading his original text I didn't feel like I am reading a great phi...
I have no problem with using "the whole is other than the sum of the parts" in your example, because it belong to a figurative speech and subjective e...
Indeed if some want to express the relationship between parts and whole in mathematical terms the processes need to be included in the "equation". At ...
Indeed Indeed, the whole, say a car, is an assembly of interacting parts. These parts weren't assembled by themselves, but were put together by human,...
The claim for ontological emergence is my prime target. As you pointed correctly the phrase "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" is an essenc...
"Theoretically, we could take your brain apart and lay out the neurons, vessels, white matter, etc. side by side on a very large table. Which would be...
I know that Koffka did not like the translation and firmly corrected students who replaced "other" with "greater". Does it mean that the wisdom of "Wh...
Bitter Crank The "sum" is mathematical notation, sort of tool, that could be useful or deceptive, depending how we use it. For example what is the "su...
I need to clarify my question. I am curious if Aristotle really said that “whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. If he didn't, who first said t...
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