Emergent Entity

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Emergent entities are properties, patterns or substances which 'arise' out of more fundamental entities through an emergence process. A property of a system is emergent, if it is not a property of any fundamental element. Although they arise out of more fundamental items, they are 'novel' or 'irreducible' with respect to them. This is the paradox of emergence.

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