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The Physics of Emergence (Paperback)
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The Physics of Emergence (Paperback)
Series: IOP Concise Physics
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A standard view of elementary particles and forces is that they
determine everything else in the rest of physics, the whole of
chemistry, biology, geology, physiology and perhaps even human
behavior.This reductive view of physics is popular among some
physicists. Yet, there are other physicists who argue this is an
oversimplified and that the relationship of elementary particle
physics to these other domains is one of emergence. Several
objections have been raised from physics against proposals for
emergence (e.g., that genuinely emergent phenomena would violate
the standard model of elementary particle physics, or that genuine
emergence would disrupt the lawlike order physics has revealed).
Many of these objections rightly call into question typical
conceptions of emergence found in the philosophy literature. This
book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent
structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception
of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions
shaping the philosophical conceptions. Examining several detailed
case studies reveal that the structure of physics and the practice
of physics research are both more interesting than is captured in
this reduction/emergence debate. The results point to stability
conditions playing a crucial though underappreciated role in the
physics of emergence. This contextual emergence has
thought-provoking consequences for physics and beyond, and will be
of interest to physics students, researchers, as well as those
interested in physics.
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