What is Emergence? Chris Fields

In this short video the neuroscientist Chris Fields explains the scientific concept of emergence. He addresses some challenges that it presents to the scientific community and touches on the larger questions that it raises.

Chris Fields uses concepts and tools from physics, information theory, evolutionary and developmental biology, and cognitive neuroscience in an attempt to understand how, and to what extent, one part of the world can be aware of another part of the world. Underlying this question is that of how observers draw boundaries around the systems being observed, including themselves. This later question raises, in turn, questions concerning the nature and awareness of time, memory and identity through time. Answers to these questions, however tentative, suggest approaches to open problems in cosmology, developmental biology, and the etiology of developmental disorders such as autism.

[ObeySilence]

Best explanation of what emergence is, I´ve found so far in Youtube. Thanks a lot!

[tinahenry]

Finally someone I can understand... Thank you

[hobonickel]

with enough data and molecular feedback it becomes more possible to predict larger structural systems ...which is why every crumb of data is being saved and stored within cern's massive data banks ...we just need computational power of a quantum system in conjunction with massive amounts of real time data flow of multi level scales aka starlink/5g and you have your crystal ball ...one hell of a transitional phase we are in ...exciting times

[zagyex]

As I understand it, emergence is only about the limits of our understanding. So we cannot tell from a component of a small system that a larger system was going to behave certain way.
Even then I am unsure that I get it with the video editing program. People have designed the chips and wires and the software in a certain way for the program to operate. There is nothing there beyond the limits of our understanding. Ok, if you just observe the part, you won't be able to tell what the whole does, but why is that emergence?

[lgcseer]

That was very well explained. Thank you.

[SolveEtCoagula]

Thank you Chris - interesting and informative.

[portlandprotests]

Why is there a laugh track at 7:56? Am I missing something?

[ajaysharma]

hi, just a regular viewers .
Can you make video with animation as it just that it more interesting and we can understand easily .
moreover, thanks for sharing knowledge

[robbyr]

The only part of this I question is around 7:40- "the same behavior of the wires can be interpreted as running several different programs"... how does that make any sense? Maybe w/ a very loose interpretation of 'same'?

[ExiledGypsy]

So, that is why gravity is emergent and is not fundamental. So, the idea of quantum gravity is none nonsensical at least not the way general relativity defines gravity.

[MrSammykilla]

Kurt Russell in the future after a 10 year lsd binge.

[mikhail_fil]

What has been missing until now, is a new unifying theory of action.

[ianorian]

May be need to learn launguage of atomic and higher level rather then observing

[viewst]

What's that noise in the background, crickets?

[yellowburger]

Dude has missed the whole point. Of course you cant predict what a computer program will do at the level of the wires, because all those wires are created by human beings, and not evolution. Now, on a different level. you can argue that human intervention is created by evolution. But, then we get back to the levels of analysis. To understand what computers are doing, we have to first understand that they are human constructs, and constructed for a "human" purpose. Not a natural purpose. Although, humans were constructed through a natural process. Hence emergence. Not the crappy sense of emergence we usually hear about.

[CynthiaAMartz]

Women are naturals at emergence interpretation in their everyday lives.