Emergence

Creation of qualitatively new properties at higher organizational level; requires non-linear fitness interactions.

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For collectives to be meaningful evolutionary units, fitness interactions must be non-linearly separable, not merely non-aggregative.
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Strengthens distinction between monotonic non-linear interactions (explanatorily redundant) and non-decomposable interactions (causally significant).

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Causal Emergence
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Core concept: degree to which an agent exerts unique predictive power on its future; key to cognition at all scales.
Emergence (as explanatory fallback)
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The standard 'it just happens' account of surprising complex outcomes that the paper argues is a research-stopping, defeatist move.
Emergence Of Awareness
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Emergence Of Communication
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Morphogenesis
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Process by which cellular collectives generate large-scale structure and form; presented as a collective intelligence problem.
Cellular Automata
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Foundational computational paradigm of local rules producing emergent global behavior, extended by this work
Fault Tolerance and Self-Healing
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DiffLogic CA circuits exhibited emergent fault tolerance without explicit design for it

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Deep Emergenceconcept0.839
The property that through processes we do not understand, we can produce systems with capabilities we did not directly engineer — applies to both biological reproduction and AI
Classification of Emergence: Nominal, Weak, Strongconcept0.828
Bedau's tripartite classification: nominal (pattern), weak (computationally irreducible), strong (irreducible downward causation).
Designing for emergencemethod0.827
An AI development approach where no explicit theory of intelligence is implemented, allowing intelligence to emerge.
G-Emergenceframework0.806
Seth's quantitative emergence measure based on Granger causality.
Emergence refers to the phenomenon where macroscopic properties cannot be solely attributed to the cause of individual properties.quote0.799
Load-bearing definition from the abstract.
Awakeningconcept0.793
Buddhist concept formalised as embodied recognition that no finite agent can evidence its separability; equated with pruning sigma via BMR
Evolutionconcept0.792
Darwinian process of variation and selection; parallels with learning are central to the paper's argument.
Dependent Arisingconcept0.789