When does a signal emerge from Nothing? When does it do it from chaos and noise? What makes a significant, suffiecient trigger to switch between the one and the other?
These are questions that we can ask in absence of other explanations. The observation is the following: simple patterns and feedback loops together can create a quality that acts as a regulatory system. The individual property does not have an effect on the state of the system. It is many adjacent properties that effect each other, and through that the overall behaviour.
The resulting emergent behaviours are a byproduct of combining the effects of local organisation principles on a larger scale.
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What does it mean for something to be emerging? Is it the proverbial turtle revealing its most vulnerable parts from a protective shell? The first radical of a seed penetrating the warm earth and seeking additional moisture, nutrients and light? An idea, not yet fully formed?
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