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Comment by typicalset

I'm not sure we have the same understanding of emergence, here (and I'm not going to insist on being precise).

I would think being emergent has something to do with a structure being present in a system which is not a fundamental part of the description. Something like thought being emergent from connecting a group of neurons.

Calling x, p, t, emergent, when they are co-ordinates in the conventional formulation of QM, is not this. I wouldn't call time emergent in the description of a simple harmonic oscillator, and I wouldn't call frequency emergent either.

Could you elaborate on what you meant?

parent typicalset 5 years ago

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