Coherence... I posted earlier on emergent causality. One aspect that needs to be elaborated on is the concurrent, self-interdependent nature of emergence, or in other words the chicken and egg problem. When agents emerge, the dynamic processes involved in their emergence sharpen simultaneously via a feedback of...

Alex Ryan's Diagram... Click here to enlarge. I have spent a lot of time on this blog discussing evolution and emergence, the distinction between the two and the interplay thereof.  All the while I have wished that I had a diagram like like  Alex Ryan's above (posted with permission), as it does much better then the...