{"id":7833,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/emergence\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:08","slug":"emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/emergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An abstract concept, considered to be a property of non-linear systems, that is meant to express the state of affairs in which multiple combinations of factors can lead to a particular behavioural outcome. &nbsp;The behavior is emergent if no single factor by itself determines whether the behavior may arise. &nbsp;Put another way, it is the appearance in either evolution or development of a structure or function from lower-level processes that were not pre-specified to determine that structure or function. &nbsp;Thus, emergent properties are properties of the &#8216;whole&#8217; that are not possessed by any of the individual parts making up that whole. &nbsp;Emergent behaviors are typically novel and unanticipated. &nbsp;The distinction between emergent and non-emergent properties is credited to <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/mill\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/mill\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Stuart Mill<\/a> (1806-1873) in his book <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">System of logic<\/span> (1843).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"biogenetic_processes\">Biogenetic processes<\/a>, <a href=\"complex_system\">Complex system<\/a>, <a href=\"consciousness\">Consciousness<\/a>, <a href=\"control_parameter\">Control parameter<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_bootstrapping\">Developmental bootstrapping<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_emergence\">Developmental emergence<\/a>, <a href=\"diachronic_emergence\">Diachronic emergence<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamical_coupling\">Dynamical coupling<\/a>, <a href=\"epigenetic_emergence\">Epigenetic emergence<\/a>, <a href=\"evolutionary_emergence\">Evolutionary emergence<\/a>, <a href=\"law\">Law<\/a>, <a href=\"laws_of_nature\">Laws of nature<\/a>, <a href=\"levelism\">Levelism<\/a>, <a href=\"levels_of_development\">Levels of development<\/a>, <a href=\"life_course_analysis\">Life course analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"on-line_emergence\">On-line emergence<\/a>, <a href=\"open_system\">Open system<\/a>, <a href=\"order_parameter\">Order parameter<\/a>, <a href=\"pattern_formation\">Pattern formation<\/a>, <a href=\"quantitative_and_qualitative_change\">Quantitative and qualitative change<\/a>, <a href=\"self-organization\">Self-organization<\/a>, <a href=\"symmetry_breaking_-and_preservation-\">Symmetry breaking (and preservation)<\/a>, <a href=\"systemic_causality\">Systemic causality<\/a>, <a href=\"systemogenesis\">Systemogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"systems_approach\">Systems approach<\/a>, Whole is greater than the sum of its parts <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An abstract concept, considered to be a property of non-linear systems, that is meant to express the state of affairs in which multiple combinations of factors can lead to a particular behavioural outcome. &nbsp;The behavior is emergent if no single factor by itself determines whether the behavior may arise. &nbsp;Put another way, it is the &hellip; 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