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"You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means."

— Murray Gell-Mann

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You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means.

— Murray Gell-Mann
complexity emergence science

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Murray Gell-Mann made this observation about emergence in a TED Talk in 2007, drawing on ideas he had developed at the Santa Fe Institute, which he co-founded in 1984 to study complex adaptive systems. Emergence — the appearance of new properties at higher levels of organization that cannot be predicted from lower-level rules alone — was central to Gell-Mann's intellectual project of connecting particle physics with biology, economics, and consciousness.

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TED Talk, 2007

Entropy can be regarded as a measure of ignorance.
— Murray Gell-Mann
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
— Murray Gell-Mann
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds.
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