Why conversational equations and emergence (General)

by romansh , Sunday, March 30, 2014, 21:11 (3889 days ago) @ David Turell

The word unexpected in important. If it is designed to be expected, it is not emergent.-Planes are designed to fly so flying planes and driveable cars are not emergent phenomena?
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> That is exactly where we are at cross purposes. If we have a synergistic response then it is emergent, if unforeseen and undesigned from the material at hand, especially if we can find no reason for the appearance of the emergent function.-So when we mix two organic compounds say a hydroxy oxime and an organic phosphoric acid to together with a copper sulphate solution, depending on my state of knowledge of such systems the resulting extraction will be emergent (with a little knowledge) or not (knowledgeable of how lone pair electrons on the oxime can form dative bonds with copper).-http://www.researchgate.net/publication/248401339_Solvent_extraction_of_base_metals_by_mixtures_of_organophosphoric_acids_and_non-chelating_oximes