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>   (Aside: when I hear the term 'emergent' I reach for my revolver.
>Because emergence is not an actual phenomenon in the system being
>studied.  On the contrary, emergents are artifacts that 'emerge' when
>an observer does not understand how the system works. That is, an
>emergent is something that a certain observer did not expect, because
>of ignorance or inability to predict that outcome.)

Perhaps you are operating with the wrong defenition of emergent? The term
emergent is meant as a counterstrike to reductionism. It is merely the
recognition that understanding the properties of the building blocks of a 
system will not yield the properties of the system. Besides, when a property is
concidered emergent then the property is independent of the chemical
nature of the elements. Ex. the properties of neural networks will arise in
networks consisting of neurons just as much as they will arise in a network which
is simulated on a computer.


 

Onar.