If I may hazard a guess: The term and concept you’re grasping for is “emergence.” It’s an area I’m both interested in but completely unfamiliar with. I wish

If I may hazard a guess: The term and concept you’re grasping for is “emergence.” It’s an area I’m both interested in but completely unfamiliar with. I wish there were a crash-course for dummies, because I feel it’s a deep topic that we’ve only scratched the surface of; and that philosophy seems to be the most rich resource means there’s low hanging fruit to discover. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-9297-3_4 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-9297-3_...