tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3427479692989285926.post2683287643272880878..comments2024-03-17T11:54:10.124+11:00Comments on Journeyman Philosopher: Emergent phenomenaPaul P. Mealinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14573615711151742992noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3427479692989285926.post-77240098644574827222008-11-10T20:33:00.000+11:002008-11-10T20:33:00.000+11:00Hi Nate,Not quite: Einstein demonstrated, mathemat...Hi Nate,<BR/><BR/>Not quite: Einstein demonstrated, mathematically, that gravity is a direct consequence of the curvature of space and time, caused by mass.<BR/><BR/>One could call gravity an 'emergent' property, but then you would have to say the same about electric charge or anything else that is manifest as a 'force field', and that's not quite what I meant.<BR/><BR/>You, yourself, are an emergent entity arising from an assemble of trillions of cells, that cannot be accounted for by looking at the cells themselves.<BR/><BR/>Even your DNA is really a code (like software code): a set of instructions that allows you to be assembled. But the emergent human being, that is you, would never be predicted except by reverse engineering. In other words, it's only because we know what your traits are (by studying you and others) that we can correlate them with your genes (DNA).<BR/><BR/>Nature is far more mysterious than even we can imagine.<BR/><BR/>Regards, Paul.Paul P. Mealinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14573615711151742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3427479692989285926.post-15487295113147379292008-11-10T09:55:00.000+11:002008-11-10T09:55:00.000+11:00This does not surprise me. Gravity exists because ...This does not surprise me. Gravity exists because it's a law external from other connections, why it is a law no one can say. There is a disconnection somewhere, however philosophers generally hate to reference 'because it just it' as any sort of justification.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com