If it can Sense, Think and Act it is an agent...

THE CHALLENGE OF EMERGENCE:
"Bertrand Russel was once confronted by a woman who claimed that the Earth is carried on the back of a giant turtle, standing on the back of another - 'turtles all the way down.'
Today, from nanoscience to cosmology we are confronted with the problem of how smaller “computational turtles' (John Smart) give rise to a pyramid of turtles of increasing sizes.
“Old turtles in new shells” are reappearing in conferences on “computational synthesis,” “dynamical hierarchical synthesis” and “dynamic ontology."
We have little use for reductive theories...

Bottom-Up p Emergence, Synthesis
Top-Down q Decomposition, Analysis

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