Week 8 Post 2

        The textbook definition of "emergence" is "coming into  being" of "giving rise to". In physics, emergence is something different. "emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole". The most famous example of emergence that allows one to write this blog post is life. Physicist Brian Greene said in his interview with Joe Rogan's: 

         "Stuff of the world, the inanimate stuff of the Heavens and us we all I come from the same fundamental ingredients and the same   fundamental laws. Now some people find that that gives them I don't know a sense of desperation. Assenting were not special, a sense that sir, how the universe is pointless or meaningless, but in my view on this, is it spectacular that were made of the same stuff that makes up this bottle of water or any of the wonderful statues he have on this desk, because at me means that how a remarkable that collections of particles can do what we do and I think that's really the way of looking at the continuity." Brian thinks it is rather phenomenal that pieces of star dust just so happened to be able to have consciousness and build buildings and bridges and make languages.

        The way Crosby stills and Nash puts it: They are one person, They are two alone, They are three together, They are for each other. Implying that in a romantic relationship, something greater than their 2 separate parts emerges.Snowflakes and termites are other common examples of emergence. A termite cathedral is surely greater than the sum of its constituents. In the winter time, water molecules get really cold and from it forms "complex symmetrical and fractal patterns". 

Joe Rogan Podcast: https://www.podgist.com/joe-rogan-experience/1428-brian-greene/index.html

Definition of emergence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence