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💭 It is hard to see how emergence/self-organisation/spontaneous-order means anything substantial. The main problem is this: simply ask 'Is the phenomenon predictable?'. →
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← If it is, there must be something graspable in the parts or preconditions – so it is not 'emergent' after all. If it is not predictable, then 'emergent' cannot reliably describe anything in the world – it is meaningless. →
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← The second problem is this: 'emergence' says assembling some things yields more than the pieces, but what could assembly mean if it did *not* do that? An 'assembly' *is* something different from the pieces. So *all* assembly is emergent. →
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