emergence |iˈmərjəns|
noun
the process of coming into being, or of becoming important or prominent : the emergence of the environmental movement | Japan's emergence as a modern state.

In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.

The common characteristics are: (1) radical novelty (features not previously observed in systems); (2) coherence or correlation (meaning integrated wholes that maintain themselves over some period of time); (3) A global or macro "level" (i.e. there is some property of "wholeness"); (4) it is the product of a dynamical process (it evolves); and (5) it is "ostensive" (it can be perceived).

20th October 2010

Video

Eisenstein was ahead of his time.  He gives the “MTV generation” a run for their money with fast cuts and has a much greater impact through editing alone.

20th October 2010

Question

tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Sitting in a sandbox full of rotting pears…lying on a bed staring up at a slow moving ceiling fan.