Fernando Rosas
London E1W 1YW, UK
Portland, ME 04101
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Boston, MA 02115
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Talk recording
Emergence is one of the most fascinating and challenging aspects of complex systems, being also a controversial topic featuring long-standing debates and disagreements. In this talk I’ll introduce a pluralistic and pragmatic stance towards emergence that embraces multiple views while focusing on methods to establish falsifiable hypotheses and procedures to verify them. This approach will be illustrated by exploring two distinct but complementary operationalisations of emergence: (i) self-contained levels of description and (ii) synergistic interactions between constituents. The talk will review the formalisms along side applications to neuroscience and AI safety.