Not really. Emergent behavior is when the system's behavioral patterns are seemingly disconnected, not obviously derived from the fundamental rules. Emergent be

Not really. Emergent behavior is when the system's behavioral patterns are seemingly disconnected, not obviously derived from the fundamental rules. Emergent behavior is on a different "level" than the originally described actions and participants. Emergent behavior is crowd behavior vs individual psychology, biology and physics to chemistry. I agree on the part that these "levels" are not actually separated. It's just how us humans happen to think about things - one could say, it's an emergent behavior in itself that comes from how humans form abstract thought. But nevertheless emergence is a useful concept. And I also agree that we don't know what the fuck is going on. To be honest, I think that we can't know, that no human being ever can achieve complete understanding. And thus, we cannot really say that we're going to do something, and this and this will happen. We don't actually know, but we do manage.