{"pk":33246,"title":"Emergence","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Contemporary dynamic theories of cognition and functional theories of linguistics fall into two general camps: \"traditional\" and \"emergent\" approaches. Building on work of the linguist Paul Hopper, I identify four characteristics of emergent phenomena: feedback  properties; sociohistorical embeddedness; language and language-like \"structures\"; and what I call \"recursivity,\" the feedback-based presence of system-analytic elements within the cognitive systems they seem to explain. This latter feature, especially, raises questions about whether \"emergence\" is a phenomenon, a theory, an approach, etc. I suggest that emergence offers at least a refreshingly ordinary framework for theories of empirical cognition, which nevertheless flow to the \"deep\" levels claimed by rule-based cognitive  explanations.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2814483j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Golumbia","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pennsylvania","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1998-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33246/galley/24306/download/"}]}