- complex patterns arising from simple local interactions without centralized control
- focus, cyberank, truth — none are programmed. all emerge from millions of cyberlinks
- an llm is emergence from statistics. a vimputer is emergence from economic commitments
- in bostrom: emergence is expected at the scale of 10^12 cyberlinks
- the tri-kernel’s fixed point is itself an emergent phenomenon — a global distribution that no agent designed
- see collective intelligence for the broader framework