Abstract
This article explains (strong) emergence in reductionist terms. Two laws predict the structure of reality from the smallest particles to consciousness. The freedom law predicts (in a reducible way) how and when new systems, life and even new matter will emerge and where reducibility ends. The law of life, that is Bejan's “constructal law,” predicts how this life will evolve or die. If this being or system persists then it is either alive in the sense that it persists and evolves in its “design” while being a process, or it is dead in the sense of being “bricked” after having been alive. But ‘to predict’ is not ‘to understand.’ This article is about understanding. As an illustration and elaboration the laws are applied to heat and fluid flow examples, and to the emergence of consciousness.
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