> Emergent is just a way for an atheist to cover up that they have no idea. We don't. I don't think many try to cover that up. Emergence just means that a sys

> Emergent is just a way for an atheist to cover up that they have no idea. We don't. I don't think many try to cover that up. Emergence just means that a system has properties not apparent from the parts going into it. It's not a tool to handwave away that fact and ascribe it to "emergent hocus pocus", it's a tool to frame the search for why that happens.