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Starting chapter four, the introduction talks about the capacity of digital molecules to reproduce or duplicate itself. This depends on the fitness criteria of its subject. It must first be a differential selection so does a selection of favoring the replication of one kind of subject can be made.

How does digital emergent works. Steps to take into consultation are: number of individuals, the number of aggregates, the number of interaction. There are two possibility spaces, the one of polymers (lengths and composition) and the one of chemical reactions.

How an external gradient can affect the emergence in a specific study. For example, if we are talking about the interaction between water and a flow of air, this will affect the direction of water, therefore there tendencies will do to. The last example was about concrete and iron in construction. The merge between this elements affects the original behavior of both of them.

The degrees of freedom in the study case, determines the space of possibility. Is evident that in a digital simulation, the space of possibility must be shorten because of the amount of possibilities that can happened. That’s why there are focus in specific aspects. For example, temperature may be not put in te deseo digital encariño, or every outcome that may come with it’s singularities.

The behaviour of digital emergence was explained in this pages. Using game of life as the principal example, the idividuals were generated with a series of rules that determined their behavior. But patterns created after this interactions are an example of emergence. Each of them has different properties, tendencies and capacities, they have different probabilities, depending of the amount of species, the timing, etc

We went deeper into differentiate properties from tendencies and capacities, and how to evaluate them mathematically, and also with a simulation. Every case of study is located in a space of possibility were subject is randomly attracted to this points. There’s one that makes the grater attraction, cal the pint of maximum disorder. 1. Enumerate possible changes. 2. Assign them in a topological space. 3. Trajectory

Asymptotic stability: the tendency to return to its original period and amplitude after a disturbed of an outside shock.
Recursivity transforma a static mathematical object into a dinámica one.
Emergence can appear in different elements with different capacities and properties. The difference in temperature makes emergence more evident, because stability in the matter can lead to no evident emergence.

Water temperature was the case of study in this pages. How mixing hot molecules of water with cold ones, makes them exchange their energy becoming a warm water. Manuel call Gradients to the capacity of intensive difference to act as energy storage devices. Then he deepen into the composition thunderstorms, and how energy found in gas molecules of water, and once they change into liquid ones, are left behind.

The difference between tendencies and capacities. The first ones are finite, they depend on temperature and and other factors that change the structure of the atoms. From solidify to liquify to gasify. On the other hand capacities are going to be a merging relation between capacities of one materia with capacities of another. For example: a knife has the capacity to cut something that has the capacity of being cut.

Difference between properties and capacities. Properties being something that the entity has or is. Like the shape and sharpness of a knife. And capacity what is able of.. that make never occur if no one ever use it, but it has the capacity o cutting.

Emergence was a philosophical concept believed to be unexplainable. That was because early philosophers think about it as a linear mechanism but they weren’t able to imagine a non linear one.