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   Emergence and Hierarchy
   The concept of emergence (/entries/emergence/) describes the appearance of novel properties at a macroscopic level that are not present in the microscopic components. For instance, the collective computational power of a standard office spreadsheet program emerges from the simple arithmetic operations of its constituent cells; the meaning of the final spreadsheet, however, is an emergent feature requiring human interpretation, which is generally excluded from …