Yes, the point is to be sure you aren’t using “Emergence” or “Emergent Phenomena” as stop signs. That you recognize that there is in fact a cause (or causes) for what you are seeing, and if the total seems to be more than the sum of its parts, that there is some mechanism that exists that is amplifying the effects.
Yes, the point is to be sure you aren’t using “Emergence” or “Emergent Phenomena” as stop signs. That you recognize that there is in fact a cause (or causes) for what you are seeing, and if the total seems to be more than the sum of its parts, that there is some mechanism that exists that is amplifying the effects.
Emergence is not an explanation by itself.