Episode 4
The last of four episodes in which I talk with Miriam about emergent phenomena and reductionism.
Some relevant links:
- Wikipedia: Iain McGilchrist
- Wikipedia: I. McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary
- David Attenborough exploring a termite "cathedral"
- Wikipedia: emergence
- Wikipedia: reductionism
- Less Wrong blog
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Yudkowsky on the "Singularity" (from 1996)
- Yudkowsky's blog posting on "The Futility of Emergence"
- YouTube: Murmuration (short film by Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith)
- Wikipedia: phenomenology
- Wikipedia: self-organisation
- Adam Smith's "invisible hand"
- J. McMurtry, "The global market doctrine: A study in fundamentalist theology"
- Wikipedia: Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)
- Belousov—Zhabotinsky oscillating reaction
- Wikipedia: Pilobolus (genus of fungi)
posted by Matthew Watkins at 04:50
2 Comments:
One could burrow forever into a phenomenon, reduce it to seemingly nothing and still have something. Good to remember there is always, at every level, something to be wondered at. The reductionist will probably reach a point that he gains joy from. It then becomes a question of where you want to stop and stare. In this sense there is no whole, because at every stage there is a whole to be witnessed. Even the process of reduction then seems to have the same qualities as phenomenon: telescopic, without edges, repetitively magical.
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Rhy me me poetical comment:
Reduction ism is an emergent phenomena
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