More is different.

By P. Anderson. 1972

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Environmental drivers of systematicity and generalization in a situated agent (2019, neutral): “een the data on which the agent was trained and test stimuli to which they respond. Finally, our experiments concur with a message expressed most clearly by Anderson’s famous contribution in Science (Anderson, 1972). Incorrect conclusions can be reached by experimenting with pared-down or idealised ”
The Effects of Reward Misspecification: Mapping and Mitigating Misaligned Models (2022, background): “ML researchers should also familiarize themselves with emergent behavior in self-organizing systems (Yates, 2012), which often exhibit similar phase transitions (Anderson, 1972).”
Towards a Definition of Disentangled Representations (2018, background): “Symmetry transformations are prevalent at every level of abstraction and “it is only slightly overstating the case to say that physics is the study of symmetry” [6].”
Emergence, Reduction and Supervenience: A Varied Landscape (2011, background): “(So I will there try to pour oil on the troubled waters symbolized by the debate between Anderson (1972) and Weinberg (1987).”
Quantum frustration in organic Mott insulators: from spin liquids to unconventional superconductors (2010, background): “The quantum many-body physics of condensed matter provides many striking examples of emergent phenomena at different energy and length scales (Anderson, 1972; Coleman, 2003; Laughlin and Pines, 2000; McKenzie, 2007; Wen, 2004).”
The classical-quantum boundary for correlations: Discord and related measures (2011, background): “Correlations in such systems play an important role because the macroscopic physics does not simply come from microscopic degrees of freedom (Anderson, 1972).”
More is the Same; Phase Transitions and Mean Field Theories (2009, background): “In the words of Anderson[2], more is different.”
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION (2009, unknown): “…reductionist concept that has become widely accepted in natural sciences, which reduces complex phenomena to the interactions of their parts, allowing the scientist to understand new, emergent phenomena at the higher hierarchical level (the concept of " more is different " ; cf. Anderson 1972).”
The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years? (2013, background): “The resulting compartmentalisation of forms and functions appears to be one of the most universal features of life, hinting to the fact that common features of symmetry breaking lead to increasing complexity of life (Anderson 1972).”
Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions (2011, background): “Many years ago Phil Anderson coined the phrase “more is different” to emphasize that macroscopic volumes of (in his case condensed) matter manifest qualitatively new phenomena, distinct from those that can be discerned in interactions among few elementary constituents and requiring distinct theoreti”
Dynamic models of large-scale brain activity (2017, background): “The collective activity of a complex dynamic system is not necessarily the trivial sum of its components: dynamic interactions at one scale may yield unexpected activity at a coarser scale, a phenomenon defined as emergence 32 .”