Emergence is pervasive in world phenomena and we should have a checklist to recognise and identify the relevant features. This bulleted list is an attempt to recognise such phenomena drawn out of the understanding built from a variety of disciplines.
It gives rise to totaly new entities
New entities transcend their origins
Entities possess their own set of features. They are emergent features.
Emergent features bear no relevance to the entity's features it originates
The new entities act as a whole which is more than the sum of its parts
It builts hierarchy
It organises reality into hierarchical levels
Entities act as adaptive agents in the environment
Each adaptive agent creates its own set of rules of contact
Adaptive agents and their immediate environment comprise the system
Adaptive agents act in their hierarchy level, to produce emergent behaviour
Emergent behaviour gives rise to the next level in the hierarchy
Adaptive agents are oblivious to the rules of the level it sprung out of
Action from some rules can leak out to higher levels in the hierarchy
Leak-out action can impair organisation in the hierarchical level it leaks in
Adaptive agents and environment built hierarchical structures
Hierarchical structures co-exist and can overlap each other
Overlapping hierarchical structures can be oblivious of each other
Overlapping hierarchical structures interaction can only be if their respective adaptive agents interact
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