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Emergence and Supervenience in Biology
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What is emergence?
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The appearance of novel properties or behaviors in a complex system that cannot be predicted from the properties of its individual components.
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Emergence is the idea that new properties or behaviors can arise from the interactions of simpler components in a complex system. These emergent properties cannot be predicted from the properties of the individual components alone.