Emergence
Quote from Wikipedia:
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole.
The fractal patterns in a snowflake can be an example in physical system.
Photo by Nathan-Myhrvold
How about consciousness? Well philosophers doesn't agree, as usual.
But lets's say that information shared through the world - like this, can be controlled, questioned and made more accurate. Then new knowledge can be made of it.
I guess Wikipedia is an example of that.
Even if you can be jailed if you spread some critic of the regime in some countries, it's hard to control the whole stream of information.
When that chaotic stream will become knowledge it has emerged to something that is more than the sum of its parts.
Though even knowledge can be questioned and interpreted in different ways.
The knowledge of climate change seems now have stopped to be questioned in most countries. But there is still no consensus what to do about it - that's a shame...
Here's another kind of emergence:
Together electronic music, an old jazz musician and a symphony orchestra creates something totally new.
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