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What is "emergent"; what is "fundamental"?
Bee Hossenfelder had an interesting discussion of the term "emergent" back in mid 2008:
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2008/04/emergence-and-reductionism.html
There are apparently several ways the term is used in theoretical physics. Several different types of emergence.
Then this year she had a discussion of the different things "fundamental" can mean:
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-fundamental.html
Bee Hossenfelder had an interesting discussion of the term "emergent" back in mid 2008:
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2008/04/emergence-and-reductionism.html
There are apparently several ways the term is used in theoretical physics. Several different types of emergence.
Then this year she had a discussion of the different things "fundamental" can mean:
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-fundamental.html
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