Emergence Experiment [trans_scribe]

 

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[Amended Audio Transcription]:

The word is emerging colloquially to eat something like butter/ giving rise to or becoming a parent (but in murdering)/ emergence and convergence are technical terms/ so today I want to explain what physicists mean by emergence/ which is also the way that the expression is open/ but not always used by philosophers in reference to novel types of behaviour (in systems with many interacting constituents)/ a good example is the aloha way that you sometimes see in the audience of sporting events/ it's not something you can do all along/ it only becomes possible because of the interactions between people and their neighbours/

 

in many condensed matter systems the interactions between atomic constituents give rise to certain types of collective behaviour/ examples of this are sound waves/ sound waves are really just a simple collective description for atoms in a gas that move periodically and so create a propagating mode of quantum mechanics/ wave salsa particles are the other way round/ this is why in condensed matter systems one can have quasi-particles which behave like particles with quantum properties of wave behaviour (and all that)/ but actually a collective that moves together emerges from the interactions of many fundamental particles/ the most relevant property of something emergent is only emergent if it comes about from the collective behaviour of many constituents of the system (be that people or atoms)/ if something is emergent it does not even make sense to speak about individual elements of the system/ quantities in physics are in emergence/ think for example of conductivity/ conductivity is the ability of a system to transport cards from one hand to another/ it's a property of materials but it does not make sense to speak of the conductivity of the electrode/ it's the same for this course (80-80)/ 

even something as seemingly simple as the colour of a material is not a property you find if you take apart a painting into elementary particles/ it comes from the band structure of molecules/ it's an emergent property/ discuss two types of ammonia/ there is strong emergence and weak emotions/ this week's emergency means that the emergent property can be derived from the properties of the system's constituents and the quark  may not have a conductivity/ but in principle you can calculate holidays for atoms and molecules and metals/ the conductivity is a consequence of this/ the only type of emergency we have is weak convergence with strong philosophers/ refer to the hypothetical possibility that a system with many constituents takes place in normal behaviour which cannot be derived from properties and interactions of the constituents/ there is not a single known example of this in the real world/ I can think of photographic mosaics/ there are photos made up of smaller photos/ if I give you all the photos and the properties you have no idea what the emerging picture will be/ however this example is hardly a natural phenomenon/ to make a photographic mosaic you start with the emergents she wants to get in there and you look for photos that will fit/ in other words the strong emergence which we have here works only thanks to an intelligent designer who had a master plan/ 

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it's not only that we have no scientific theory for it/ it's worse/ strong emergence is incompatible with worry/ know about the laws of nature/ because if you think that strong emergence can really happen then this necessarily implies that there will be objects and these words/ behaviour is in conflict with the standard model of particle physics/ if that was not so then it really would not be strong emergence/ I think that consciousness or free will should be strong in merging/ but there is absolutely no reason to think that this is the case all week/ consciousness is as weakly emergent as any other collective phenomenon/ large systems thank you for watching/ see you next week/ we know a building inside-out with a co-star's inventory of properties.