Entities have state (including position) and ways of interacting with each other. This leads to new state in the next moment, which leads to new state in the moment after, and so on. Thus the more global state affects the future state. There’s nothing mysterious about any of this.
Usually when people make a deal about emergence they’re confusing the map for the territory. They couldn’t predict the overall state evolution just by considering the parts.
They’re thinking of their notion of the generic entity type. But all that’s out there in the territory are the entity instances with their specific state.
The parts can’t exist in a stateless fashion. It’s just that in our heads — the map — we can consider them in that fashion.
Usually when people make a deal about emergence they’re confusing the map for the territory. They couldn’t predict the overall state evolution just by considering the parts.
They’re thinking of their notion of the generic entity type. But all that’s out there in the territory are the entity instances with their specific state.
The parts can’t exist in a stateless fashion. It’s just that in our heads — the map — we can consider them in that fashion.