The End of ( Traditional ) Emergence : Introducing Reactive Emergence
5.4 Reactive Emergence
We may rescue the term emergence for situations in which a change to an environment leads entities in that environment to change how they act or interact . The new actions or relationships may be considered reactive emergence .
Acknowledgements
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would like to thank Debora Shuger and Susan Stepney for constructive discussions . Also , my thanks go to an anonymous reviewer for comments that led to the discussion of reactive emergence .
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