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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. First Encounters. 1.1 Physical Vantage Points ; 1.2 Here Come the Philosophers ; 1.3 A Brief History -- 2. Venturing into the Microcosm. 2.1 Quantum Worlds ; 2.2 Which Way Did It Go? ; 2.3 Entanglement and Irreducibility ; 2.4 Quantum Emergence -- 3. The...

Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 First Encounters; 1.1 Physical Vantage Points; 1.2 Here Come the Philosophers; 1.3 A Brief History; 2 Venturing into the Microcosm; 2.1 Quantum Worlds; 2.2 Which Way Did It Go?; 2.3 Entanglement and Irreducibility; 2.4 Quantum Emergence; 3 The Aggregation of Par...

5.1 Chaos Theory5.2 Self-Organized Patterns; 5.3 Displays of Temporal Order; 6 The Rise of Effective Theories; 6.1 A Single Neuron; 6.2 Descending Down the Rabbit Hole; 6.3 Re-Emerging from the Rabbit Hole; 7 Social Emergence; 7.1 Social Networks and Normative Behavior; 7.2 The Wealth of Nations; 7....