Greetings, This morning, I saw an interesting emergence problem on a children's television show, and thought I would send a query to the group.
As is prone to happen, a character received a knitted sweater, which promptly caught on something and began to unravel. By the time they noticed it was just one long string. They then followed the string back, ending up with a large ball of string. They had the string, which is all the sweater was; but of course, they did not in any reasonable sense have "the sweater". I was wondering how the different authors in the book would describe this situation. In particular, it would seem natural to say that the string isn't the sweater BECAUSE the sweater is "emergent". Hopefully that example is of interest to more than just me, Eric P.S. Look Nick, I maintained your thread dominance request!
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