2.1: Emergence and Systems Thinking
 Prof. Jack Reilly
 S2026

🧠 Think
•	Is “intelligence” an emergent phenomenon? Or something different? What does it mean to be “intelligent”? What about consciousness? When do we start treating a system as more than the sum of its parts, and why?
📖 Read
•	Goldstein, Emergence as a Construct: History and Issues
🌐 Browse
•	Krakauer, “What is Complexity?” Santa Fe Institute Lecture.
•	Schultz, “Flocking together: Study shows how animal groups find their way”
•	Roose, “A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled” NYTimes.
📚 Additional Resources
•	Boden, “Autonomy and Artificiality” from The Philosophy of Artificial Life
•	Bedau, Mark. “Weak Emergence”
•	Johnson, “Eliminating the mystery from the concept of emergence”
•	Hofstadter, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”
•	Holland, John. Emergence
•	Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
•	Simon, Herb. Sciences of the Artificial
•	“Emergent Properties”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
📝 Submit
•	Discussion question to course chat
Tip
•	“📖 Read”, “🎧 Listen”, and/or “📺 Watch” items are required content for the day, and should be read/heard/watched before class on that day.
•	“🌐 Browse” items should be briefly looked at but do not need to be read deeply.
•	“📚 Additional Resources” do not need to be looked at; they are there to serve, if useful, as further references for your debates, final projects, and general edification later.