The Physics of Emergence

PRELIMS.pdf
	Acknowledgments
	Author biography
		Robert C Bishop
	Introduction
		References
CH001.pdf
	Chapter 1 Brief history of the debate
		1.1 The modern emergentists
		1.2 Einstein, Pauli, and Schrödinger
			1.2.1 Albert Einstein
			1.2.2 Wolfgang Pauli
			1.2.3 Erwin Schrödinger
		1.3 The return of emergence
		1.4 Questioning the hierarchy
		1.5 Weinberg and the response to P W Anderson
		1.6 Universality and independence
		References
CH002.pdf
	Chapter 2 Some physics objections to emergence
		2.1 Physics is fundamentally causally closed
		2.2 Fundamental principles/laws govern everything
		2.3 Symmetry is reduction
		2.4 Coherence of physics and the sciences
		2.5 Ontological emergence violates fundamental laws
		2.6 Atomism, context and reductionism
		2.7 Bare versus dressed states
		References
CH003.pdf
	Chapter 3 Contextual emergence
		3.1 A framework of conditions
		3.2 Stability conditions
		3.3 Contextual topologies and abstraction
		3.4 Contextual topologies and contexts
		3.5 Possibility spaces
		3.6 Ontic/epistemic states and observables
		References
CH004.pdf
	Chapter 4 Case studies from physics
		4.1 Convection as a contextually-emergent state
			4.1.1 Rayleigh–Bénard convection
			4.1.2 Convection cells as contextually-emergent
		4.2 Temperature as a contextually-emergent property
			4.2.1 Two transitions
			4.2.2 The contextual emergence of temperature
			4.2.3 Chemical potential as a contextually-emergent property
		4.3 Molecular structure as a contextually-emergent property
			4.3.1 The importance of molecular structure
			4.3.2 Ontological contextual emergence of molecular structure
			4.3.3 Quantum chemistry’s classical/quantum algebra
		4.4 Brief examples
			4.4.1 The electromagnetic field
			4.4.2 The fractional quantum Hall effect
			4.4.3 Synthetic spin-1/2 systems
			4.4.4 Lasers
			4.4.5 Suppressing spatiotemporal instabilities
		References
CH005.pdf
	Chapter 5 Responding to objections
		5.1 Physics is fundamentally causally closed
		5.2 Fundamental principles/laws govern everything
		5.3 Symmetry is reduction
		5.4 Coherence of physics and the sciences
		5.5 Ontological emergence violates fundamental laws
		5.6 Atomism, context and reductionism
		5.7 Is it all just boundary conditions?
		5.8 Everything is in the fundamental domain
		References
CH006.pdf
	Chapter 6 Broader implications
		6.1 Redefining fundamentality
		6.2 Contextual emergence of the macroscopic
			6.2.1 Decoherence
		6.3 Implications for the universal wave function
		6.4 Laws of nature
		6.5 Determinism
			6.5.1 Contextual emergence of stochasticity and determinism
		6.6 Contextual emergence beyond physics
			6.6.1 Contextual emergence in biology
			6.6.2 Contextual emergence in cognitive and neuroscience
			6.6.3 Contextual emergence and free will
		References
APP.pdf
	Chapter
		A.1 *-Algebras
		A.2 Quantum and classical algebras
			A.2.1 Classical algebras
			A.2.2 Classical/quantum algebras
		A.3 Algebras and dynamics
		A.4 Topologies
		A.5 Structural stability and topological equivalence
		A.6 KMS states
		References