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On Emergence

Introduction

As a general rule Emergence is about changing the observer and the observed.

David once described Emergence as: ;#;

The emergence of knowledge via spatial and other transformations, are thought experiments that take an issue or
context and subject it to a series of observational perspectives. The purpose of which is to construct a
metaphorical identity of the knowledge and its relational knowledge set, structural support and provenance.

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There are a series of questions based on the 'ABC' model that bring a series of new spatial perspectives about the knowledge. For instance a spatial transformation of ‘B’ rotates the idea through 3D space. The idea of turning information on its side is a meta-view that reveals the systems architecture that holds the knowledge in space.

Emergence provides the context and process for the problem to ‘give up’ its structure, to allow us to experience and work with the problems system / network of knowledge nodes. Further processing allows the system/network to self-organise, i.e. develop a network solution.

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“If we and past aeons of scholars have not yet begun to understand the power of self organization as a source of
order, neither did Darwin. The order that emerges in enormous, randomly assembled, interlinked networks of binary
variables is almost certainly merely the harbinger of similar emergent order in whole varieties of complex systems.
We may be finding new foundations for the order that graces the living world. If so, what a change in our view of
life, and our place, must await us. Selection is not the whole source of order after all. Order vast, order
ordained, order for free. We may be at home in the universe in ways we have hardly begun to comprehend.”
Stuart Kauffman - At Home in the Universe

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Network solutions are ‘Bottom Up’ solutions; they come within the system, not from outside the system, as in ‘Top Down’ solutions, which are provided by a ‘Superior Intelligence’. Consider this to be parallel to the following:

Imagine we exist in a world where we do not yet know about ‘kettles’. Notice the difference in experience between touching the kettle and learning it is hot, and someone telling us the kettle is hot.

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