#emergentproperty — Public Fediverse posts

penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/25/penpal-a-robotic-drawing-assistant/

penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant

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penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/25/penpal-a-robotic-drawing-assistant/

penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/25/penpal-a-robotic-drawing-assistant/

penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/25/penpal-a-robotic-drawing-assistant/

@baruch Magical thinking? If the alternative is dualism, a physical world and a spiritual world, a body and a soul, I'll take emergent properties in a single unitary world any day. 🙂

I think an emergent properties model is far less magical than what seems to be the alternative view.

The cool thing about neural network models, llms and the like, is that they DO add up to more than the sum of their parts, and they DO begin to do things that cannot be fully explained by all of their parts. They have emergence. And it's early days.

That's not the issue with these weather models, but we've gone further afield now. And who knows whether a weather model with historical data and massive specific data might not begin to have insights, not just predictions, but insights and thoughts, about the domain that at first we thought we had merely invited it to model and predict? I don't think I'm being "magical" about that.

#llm #emergentproperty #ai #it #computer #statistics

broken symmetry is the physical precondition for the possibility of writing down effective (not fundamental) theories.

If this effective theory is dynamically sufficient (as: you don't gain information by going down even tho it clearly obeying those laws) that what we mean by emerging.

*it obeys physics but it's not dictated by it.*

#symmetry #emergentproperty #systemtheory

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WCFoWg2YhrO1DFKGcCiCZ?si=DmMTcvEpTmeLvAh_KORNmA&nd=1

broken symmetry is the physical precondition for the possibility of writing down effective (not fundamental) theories.

If this effective theory is dynamically sufficient (as: you don't gain information by going down even tho it clearly obeying those laws) that what we mean by emerging.

*it obeys physics but it's not dictated by it.*

#symmetry #emergentproperty #systemtheory

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WCFoWg2YhrO1DFKGcCiCZ?si=DmMTcvEpTmeLvAh_KORNmA&nd=1

broken symmetry is the physical precondition for the possibility of writing down effective (not fundamental) theories.

If this effective theory is dynamically sufficient (as: you don't gain information by going down even tho it clearly obeying those laws) that what we mean by emerging.

*it obeys physics but it's not dictated by it.*

#symmetry #emergentproperty #systemtheory

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WCFoWg2YhrO1DFKGcCiCZ?si=DmMTcvEpTmeLvAh_KORNmA&nd=1

broken symmetry is the physical precondition for the possibility of writing down effective (not fundamental) theories.

If this effective theory is dynamically sufficient (as: you don't gain information by going down even tho it clearly obeying those laws) that what we mean by emerging.

*it obeys physics but it's not dictated by it.*

#symmetry #emergentproperty #systemtheory

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WCFoWg2YhrO1DFKGcCiCZ?si=DmMTcvEpTmeLvAh_KORNmA&nd=1

broken symmetry is the physical precondition for the possibility of writing down effective (not fundamental) theories.

If this effective theory is dynamically sufficient (as: you don't gain information by going down even tho it clearly obeying those laws) that what we mean by emerging.

*it obeys physics but it's not dictated by it.*

#symmetry #emergentproperty #systemtheory

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2WCFoWg2YhrO1DFKGcCiCZ?si=DmMTcvEpTmeLvAh_KORNmA&nd=1