Henry_V comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong
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I'm pretty ignorant on this, but I always thought that the phrase related to complex outcomes that result from surprisingly simple systems, so that the complexity is "emergent".
One example is chaos. One can have chaotic non-linear dynamic systems and non-chaotic non-linear dynamic systems.
But, again, I could have misunderstood.