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Usage examples of emergent.

To consider simplicity and complexity, chaos and emergent order, self-similarity in complex adaptive systems, Kauffrnan models and much else.

Micro-men the heavy emergent Mark 6s with their clawed and jointed arms and monocular cephalic turrets, the rest lower-numbered Marks of the sort that merely made Richard-the-Third humps under clothing.

Thus, the real dissimilarity between the emergent status of fluidity in water and the emergent status of consciousness from the brain is that the former is a low-level, or primitive, emergence, while the latter is a high-level, or complex, emergence.

Ego means the less of Eco, and vice versawith no way whatsoever to consolidate their equally important claims in a new and emergent and integrative growth.

Bay Area psychedelia collided headlong with the emergent world of computerized virtual reality, was like a Kiwanis Club gig compared to this astonishing do.

After giving the question due consideration, I briefed him on the Information Revolution, giving emphasis to the creation of the news channels, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and so forth, and the subsequent evolution of the television journalist from reporter to an interface through which the events of history were filtered, and the emergent punditocracy whose neatly packaged opinions were bleated out non-stop until they produced a litany of responses from the viewers that echoed these opinions with sheeplike unanimity.

Cyan Gem, the middle sisters, had earned honors in science at Newmarch University and won research assistantships at the core-star observatory, studying the newly emergent planetics.

Not only is modernity not devoid of the Goddess, her Goodness and Agape and Compassion are written all over it, with its radically new and emergent stance of worldcentric pluralism, universal benevolence, and multicultural tolerance, something that no horticultural society could even conceive, let alone implement.

Over the years he came to resemble a high hill covered in grass and shrubs and stunted trees, with here and there a portion of scale showing through, and the colossal head entirely emergent, unclothed by vegetation, engaging everything that passed before him with huge, slit-pupiled golden eyes, exerting a malefic influence over the events that flowed around him, twisting them into shapes that conformed to the cruel designs his discarnate intellect delighted in the weaving of and profited his vengeful will.

In self-transcendence, however, the emergent and senior level exerts omega pull on junior dimensions, something that neither they themselves, nor their morphically resonating partners, could do alone.

And, as we will see throughout this book, same-level relational exchange does not mean that the micro exchanges with a pregiven macro: they co-create each other in emergent worldspaces.

Diem seemed to be doing everything possible to disguise this visit from the locals, just as the Emergents should expect.

Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.

Calling on inherited archetypes and old mythological motifs is of little help in this new, emergent, and unprecedented endeavor.

Nevertheless, the perceptions of those attributes are regarded as emergent properties of complex configurations of atoms that exist independently of our sensory perceptions.