I see the definition of emergent property being more individual, it is not something that you can just label as this or that, it's more,...... it's something that you experience and since we all experience the world around us in our own different way....the definition of an emergent property can have as many different meanings as there are people on this planet...
Emergent Property's can manifest themselves in people as well as nature.
For Instances i fill as though emergent property can in some ways be a good representation of our everyday lives. By that i mean there can be so many things that at the time appear to be nothing more then just random happening's but are still some how more then often connected to the bigger picture for example, The last time i was in Austin i went to check out this large colony of bats one of the largest in the country, It was an awesome experience. When you see all of these bat's literally thousands of them winding their way through the sky each one individually flying in a seemingly random pattern and yet still some how the same general direction as part of a larger entity. It's really an amazing sight. This also reminds me of people in a way, everyone of use living our lives as an individual with our own hopes, dreams, and goals that we wish to achieve someday and yet all to often forgetting that we to are part of a larger entity.....The human race and that even our most seemingly unimportant and insignificant tasks as an individual can have a profound effect on not only our lives and the lives of the people around us but also the rest of the world as a whole.
The study of the patterns in the stars as well as those in nature could also be thought of too some extent as an emergent property.
Some people may even consider our very consciousness as somewhat of an emergent property of the brain, in a way that makes sense. If anything history has shown us that human imagination, creativity and ingenuity is ever changing, we have put people in space, on the surface of the moon and to the farthest corners of the earth all based on collective ideas and in the pursuit of knowledge.
If consciousness is an emergent property of the brain then the evolution of the human race must be the result of this property working effectively.
However a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. The same goes for people....
The collective IQ of any large group of people is that of it's lowest member.
I.E...Mob mentality from the days of angry villagers wielding pitchforks and torches to modern day riots,. Even the most intelligent person in a group can succumb to there most basic primal instincts if pushed far enough, just as a seemingly intelligent person can be convinced to try drugs or alcohol when under pressure from there pears.
Dose an individual in a mob have anymore free will then a bee in a swarm.... you decide.
I would like to think that if i where ever immersed in a mob mentality that my reaction would be that of a rational person....so that i could take a step beck from the brick or pipe and then intelligently assess the situation properly, and if enough people could do this then the mob itself would have no power unfortunately it would seem that whenever a large group of people gather for whatever reason there is almost always disorder and dissension this trend seems to occur even when supposedly highly educated and intelligent people meet for symposiums, conferences, and congress for that matter!
Maybe that's just human nature....
Perhaps it is the emergent patterns of humanity as a whole that really enable us to identify those among us with the greatest potential. It is the people who defy the patterns and the trends that tend to stand out from the crowd. In the past this process has sometimes made them pariahs, however in the long run it has always been the people who defy the status qua who make the biggest impact.
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