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‘A property can be emergent.’

[⟨det property.n⟩ emergent.a]

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Strong emergence says that if systems can have qualities not directly traceable to the system’s components, but rather to how those components interact, and one is willing to accept that a system supervenes on its components, then it is difficult to account for an emergent property’s cause.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

People have put forth so many reasons for our specialness, and they have all be shot down in one way or another: technology, laughter, language, even antibiotic reaction in an individual immune system! (this website [this site, the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, is a pretty good one]) Sentience as opposed to some form of basic consciousness might be as simple as an emergent property due to a couple of extra neuronal feedback loops in the brain.
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Biologists and earth scientists usually view the factors that stabilize the characteristics of a period as an undirected emergent property or entelechy of the system; as each individual species pursues its own self – interest, for example, their combined actions tend to have counterbalancing effects on environmental change.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Stump speculates about a natural dualism that is not an extreme Cartesian dualism – one that depends on a metaphysical mental substance – but one that is an emergent property at the system level.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“Government’ ’ is an emergent property of human society.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The more modern metaphor I much prefer is that SF as a field is an emergent property of the whole seething mass of writers and writing that make it up.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The actual temperature rise is an emergent property resulting from interactions among hundreds of factors.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Overall relatedness was low, and genetic structure in the network can be interpreted as an emergent property of philopatry and seems not to be primarily driven by targeted interactions among highly related individuals in family groups.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In a similar way that a termite mound is an emergent property of the sum of individual interactions of thousands of termites, so human culture and all of society’s artefacts are emergent properties of our individual interactions with each other.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The actual temperature rise is an emergent property resulting from interactions among hundreds of factors.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Invention is an inherent emergent property of entropy.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The flame itself is an emergent property of the coming together of different systems.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

One way of looking at consciousness is to think of it as an emergent property.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In other words, trust is an emergent property.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

‘’’ ’.. [a] modern metaphor I much prefer is that SF as a field is an emergent property of the whole seething mass of writers and writing that make it up.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I am of the opinion that the mind is an emergent property of a physical reality.
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In Wikipedia:

This type of behavior changes frequency from a simple electrodynamic and control systems input to an emergent property.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

At several point, Hitchens that in his view morality is an emergent property of evolution, and thus is conventional in nature, and not transcendent, or ultimate in the sense that Wilson views his Christian moral standards.
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She resented the widespread personification of Gaia and stressed that Gaia is “not an organism”, but “an emergent property of interaction among organisms”.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.