The Trouble With Emergence

I have grown suspicious of the word emergence and the concepts it designates. More often than not, the term seems to serve as a deus ex machina whenever other models or theories cannot account for a certain new aspect or object. Emergence is then used as though it were based on a concept or a theory...

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Main Author: Wibke Schniedermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2016-05-01
Series:On_Culture
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Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-1/trouble-with-emergence/