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Wireless Philosophy

Unit 2: Lesson 1

Metaphysics
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Metaphysics: Emergence

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In this Wireless Philosophy video, Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia) introduces the concept of emergence. Emergence occurs when features of the world are not reducible to arrangements of fundamental entities.

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