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Systems

  • By Liz Greene
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Systems can surprise us.
Out of neurons comes consciousness. Out of cars, traffic jams. Just as
interesting as these emergent properties, but less discussed, are submergent properties, in which the causal arrow points
down rather than up. The group changes the individual.    

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