Minh-Huy Mai-Duc

@sabertoaster.bsky.social

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Undergrad @ VNUHCM University of Science. Interested in doing NeuroAI research. Happy to discuss and for further reaching out:) ---- 2026 will be my year!

Figure 1.1: The principle of emergence, simply illustrated. The gears on the left do not interact, and nothing interesting happens. However, on the right, the interaction between the gears produces interesting, useful phenomena that cannot be reduced to the individual gears separately. For example, the little gear will spin faster, but the larger one will have higher torque at its axel — these properties would be entirely different if either gear interacted with a different sized gear. Furthermore, the material that the gear is made from really doesn’t matter very much — the same basic behavior would be produced by plastic, metal, wood, etc. Thus, even in this simple case, there is something just slightly magical and irreducible going on — when two gears get together, something emerges that is more than the sum of the parts, and exists in a way independent of the parts, even while being entirely dependent on actually having those parts to make it happen. This is a good analogy for the relationship between the mind and the brain, and computer models can capture many complex interactions between neurons in the brain, and reveal nonobvious kinds of emergence.