For the majority of my life, I had a difficult time with the distinction between “knowledge” and “belief”. It seemed to me for a long time that they were simply two words for roughly the same thing. Both – more or less – refer to the conviction that a mental model matches objective reality. I’veContinue reading “Knowledge and Belief”
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A socratic investigation of entities and emergent properties with a brief descent in to madness
Have you ever thought about something as being “more than the sum of its parts”? If so, you’ve probably – knowingly or unknowingly – considered the concept of emergent properties. Emergent properties are those properties of a collective system that are not held by any of the members of that system alone. A commonly citedContinue reading “A socratic investigation of entities and emergent properties with a brief descent in to madness”
Thoughts on anything and everything 