Emergent Phenonmena

Connections List
 * Human Metaphysics
 * Being, Consciousness
 * Normal Metaphysics

Scope
 * Emergent phenomena: items which are defined as behaviors rather than particles.
 * The whole is greather than the sum of parts

Names
 * Emergence, emergent pheonomena
 * Holism
 * Epiphenomena

Examples
 * Wetness - the physical state of water, same particles
 * Waves - water and EM/light
 * Consciousness - (or so it might be), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCvlFRISIM, TED Max Tegmark "Consciousness is a mathematical pattern"
 * Social patterns - flocking, viral videos, flash mobs/orgs, inbred forums, etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT09JbaEh_I&t=2092s, esp 30:54 Rob Bell claims this is evident in flocks of birds where no single one is the commander.