That task, which remains on the level of description, is one for anthropology or sociology.
Emergence is said to happen when the focus is switched from one scale to a coarser level of description.
Archivists are trained to determine just the right level of description to allow for sufficient discovery.
A key task in the years to come will be to develop a methodology for assessing the level of description appropriate for solving a specific problem.
Detailed understanding and control of biological networks will require a level of description similar to that of electronic engineering blueprints.
Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of description, from the molecular to the social.
Since human actions, at an appropriate level of description, are part of the universe, it follows that humans cannot act otherwise than they do; free will is impossible.
The next level of description is to consider particles as rigid objects of generic shape, which would enrich the possible phenomenology enormously.
The third law describes the relationship between the focused level of description to its lower and higher ones, and defines the dichotomy of deterministic and stochastic drives.
In this chapter, the equilibrium and thermodynamical properties of imogolite dispersions are analysed at a mesoscopic level of description with theories of self-assembly.
The advantage of the atomistic approach is that the detailed level of description allows complete freedom in specifying the swimmer design and its coupling with the surrounding fluid.
