There’s probably some places where it’s used where it shouldn’t be, but there is such a thing as “emergent”. I think it helps to see an easy example first. Ta

There’s probably some places where it’s used where it shouldn’t be, but there is such a thing as “emergent”. I think it helps to see an easy example first. Take a great body of water (h2o) on earth, such as the ocean. That water has waves and those waves have amplitudes, as well as other properties such as crests. A molecule (or even a few) of water (h2o) doesn’t really have these properties. It doesn’t have crests. You could argue it has amplitudes. Crests are an emergent property of large masses of water molecules within a specific system. There’s no crest to a water molecule. Similarly, for demonstration purposes we could say there’s no waves/crests when gravity is removed. So when I hear emergent, I imagine properties that show up under certain conditions within a system, that were not present in individual components.