https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence > In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an ent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence > In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. It's sort of a corollary[1] to the Fallacy of Composition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition [1] There's probably a better word here; emergence isn't necessarily true given the fallacy of composition.