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And you, or (almost) nobody else, would have never made this example (quantized, emergent properties etc) just 15 years ago. GP point still stands.



15 years ago it was 2009; those concepts were widespread at the time.


I knew someone would nitpick on the chosen time-range, missing the point. Let say 25, or 30, or whatever.


> The philosopher G. H. Lewes coined the term "emergent" in 1875, distinguishing it from the merely "resultant"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

The word is 150 years old; the concept is older than we can determine.




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