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Emergent Phenomena Only Belong to Biology

In this philosophical paper, I discuss and illustrate the necessary three ingredients which together could allow a collective phenomenon to be labelled as “emergent”. First the phenomenon, as usual, requires a group of natural objects entering in a non-linear relationship and potentially entailing the existence of various semantic descriptions depending on the human scale of observation. Second...

Hindman's Theorem is only a Countable Phenomenon

We pursue the idea of generalizing Hindman’s Theorem to uncountable cardinalities, by analogy with the way in which Ramsey’s Theorem can be generalized to weakly compact cardinals. But unlike Ramsey’s Theorem, the outcome of this paper is that the natural generalizations of Hindman’s Theorem proposed here tend to fail at all uncountable cardinals.

Chemsex. An emergent phenomenon.

Letter to the editor.