Here’s an example from your daily life. Wetness. Wetness is an emergent property of a liquid. A single molecule is neither wet nor dry, but when you have many s

Here’s an example from your daily life. Wetness. Wetness is an emergent property of a liquid. A single molecule is neither wet nor dry, but when you have many such molecules, they collectively behave in ways that exhibit new properties such as phase transitions. Emergent properties are definitely a thing. The reason you’re hearing more about them is because we’re paying more attention to them in lots of domains, one of the most recent and date I say common around these here parts, being the study of “intelligence”.