Most of the intelligent complexity of the individual neuron (~a single celled animal focusing on survival) will not to contribute to the intelligence of the brain. Likewise, the intelligence of a civilization is far less than the sum of the intelligences of all its humans.
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Interesting observation of emergent phenomena in general. Complex rules interacting give rise to in some ways less complex rules.
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Got any more examples?
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No expert but quantum physics giving rise to the rules of strong/week force, etc sounds like a reduction of complexity. But then how they mix (chemistry) seem like an increase. But then how crystals interact (materials) seems like a reduction.
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Overall, considering it a “reduction of complexity” probably isn’t correct in absolute terms, but in relative terms (comparing a system to its underlying system), it seems there is a reduction.
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The underlying system provides elements that enable the structure of the emergent system, but the underlying system has many more properties than that. The emergent system is not a greater "more powerful" whole, but a description of different dynamics at a different scale.
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Correctomundo.
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