Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy

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1. angel_jSep 2020
   I am using motion quite generally, to include the motion of particles, heat, etc. I don't know if the emergent property stuff is proven or discussed much, but I think the field is coming around to it, if for no other reason than they are running out of ideas.

   Physics has been working in the top-down direction. That is not how you find emergent properties, it is an attempt to explain things from the properties they seem to possess.

   For instance, the relatively gigantic boson is somehow "sub-atomic", to particle physicists. Whereas I think it that particles emerge from the breakdown of the bosonic field, and when we smash together the particles which reveal the boson, we are briefly seeing what happens when we have put them back together. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039542

   A very good primer on this is "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy" by Manuel DeLanda.

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2. tedkimbleAug 2011
   Manuel DeLanda - Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy

   http://www.amazon.com/Intensive-Science-Virtual-Philosophy-C...

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