Like many commonly used words, the term emergence has several meanings. In its weakest sense, a metaphor is provided by Michelangelo Buonarroti’s famous sculptures entitled The Prisoners, which show human figures struggling to free themselves...

. Roughly, a property or phenomenon is emergent if it appears in a system without appearing in the component parts of the system. But the relations between emergence and REDUCTIONISM are somewhat complex. T.Nagel, ‘Panpsychism’, in his...

Emergence Emergence is, broadly speaking, the fact that there are features of the world—objects, properties, laws, perhaps other things—that are manifested as a result of the existence of other, usually more basic, entities but that...

In philosophy, systems theory and the sciences, emergence refers to the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theory of complex...

A federal government plan for responding to emergencies will not be ready in time for the approaching hurricane season, officials have told Congress.The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which bore the brunt of criticism following the 2005 season when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf...

It's been hard to go wrong investing in emerging markets in recent years. Chris Alderson, lead manager of T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock (symbol PRMSX), a Kiplinger 25 member, has made the most of this bull run.His fund returned a sizzling 62% in the...

While pro-Taliban gunmen seized a border town Tuesday, President Pervez Musharraf pursued his crackdown on lawyers and liberal activists — underscoring the irony that it isn't extremists going to jail but secularists who are potential allies in the war on militancy.The general's suspension of the...