Emergent Systems: A Discussion

"Being Emergent": The Book Archive

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• Al Albano. Termite Computers: Entropy Is What You Don't Know

• Tim Burke. Complexity and Causation.

• Anne Dalke. Why Words Arise--and Wherefore: Literature (and Literary Theory) as Forms of Exploration"--and Dialogue

• Anne Dalke, Kim Cassidy, Paul Grobstein, and Doug Blank.
  Emergent Pedagogy: Learning to Enjoy the Uncontrollable--and Make it Productive

• Published version of Emergent Pedagogy

• Karen Greif. Can We Model a Cell? Emergent Approaches to Biological Research

• Paul Grobstein. From Complexity to Emergence and Beyond: Why Emergence is so Hard to Define, Why it is Interesting/Surprising and Important (to Me), and What it Leads On To That Might Not Otherwise Be--Or The Nature of Inquiry, and of What is Being Inquired Into

• K. David Harrison and Eric Raimy. Language As An Emergent System

• Mark Kuperberg. The Two Faces of Emergence in Economics

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