Emergent Properties

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Emergent Properties
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Chemical-physical properties

• Examples
• Water
• Car
• Body-mind

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Pre-biotic / Biotic

• Life
• Duplication (growth)
• DNA ( RNA)
• Genes
• Transcription errors (Cosmic rays-induced)
  mutations
• Unconsciously building an envelop around
  themselves ?

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The Phenotype

• Environment-adapted instrument Survival
  machine (Dawkins)
• The phenotype itself is an emergent property (a
  combined coordinated set of emergent properties)

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Emergent properties of the body-mind phenotype

• Sexual reproduction re-working of the emergent
  property duplication
• Neural-hormonal system re-working of the
  emergent properties of the cell membrane
  (perception, action, memory)
• Consciousness emergent property of the
  compounded matter-energy complex underlying the
  neural-hormonal system

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Emergent properties of the neural-hormonal system

• Perception
• Movement
• Memory
• Hedonistic tones (conventionally felt as positive
  and negative)
• Hence
• Understanding ( Intelligence)
• Emotions (1st level)
• Feelings (2nd level)

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Emergent properties of the human phenotypes
neural-hormonal system

• Sense of identity and continuity throughout time
  of the virtual I
• They do it like mirrors (Agatha Christie)