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| All Images: Central Leicester, August 2022 |
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| All Images: Central Leicester, August 2022 |
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| All Original Images: West Leicester, August 2022 |
[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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| All Photo-Manipulations: August 2022 |
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.
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| All Images: Work in Progress ('The Castle' Paintings), Acrylics & Mixed Media or Acrylics Only on Panel, 60 cm x 60 cm, July 2022 |
The images here represent a group of paintings (or hybrid mixed-media pieces, technically - in the case of the first two), which have all been simultaneously in play over recent months.
If this slow-but-steady accumulation of work can be said to represent some form of map (of time - and of numerous layered subjective associations, as well as of actual delineated, physical terrain), then it is one which is constructed only as a consequence of potentially open-ended exploration. It might be said to be in a state of constant becoming - just as repeated visits to (or through) the same locations reveal a potentially limitless sequence of experiences, associations and emotional responses. It soon emerges that there is no 'the same' about it - however familiar the route may superficially appear. The intention is not to follow any pre-existing chart - be that as a progress from A to B on a spatial plane, or in pursuit of a priori thematic/theoretical destinations.

Also, for anyone who may already be joining-up the literary dots: it's only fair to remember that K. wasn't exactly one for reaching definitive conclusions either...
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| All Images: Central Leicester, June 2022 |
[Reconfigured/Translated Audio Transcription]:
Usually, the university to remember is related to symptoms of memory hole paralysis. In which case, the subject is unable to access the memory of the memory holes that caused the subject's access problems, because they were specifically designed to be accessed from the other side.