Emergence: The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of It's Parts
ATTENTION! INTELLECTUALS You can take a Personality Test and get the result like I did below. Just click on the links. My Personality Test Result INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI) This wonderful image above, from Richard Seel of New Paradigm Organization Consulting http://www.new-paradigm.co.uk gives a clear insight into the nature of Emergence. Emergence is a property that occurs in most Complex Systems, from stock markets, to Cities, Ant Colonies, Chemical Reactions, Hurricanes and even to Computer generated Cellular Automata. Kevin Mihata describes Emergence as " the process by which patterns or global-level structures arise from interactive local-level processes. This "structure" or "pattern" cannot be understood or predicted from the behavior or prop...