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If you're still struggling with the concept of emergence, this series linked to by Alex Reid is a good place to start. Reid takes it a step further by thinking of emergence as it relates to soap bubbles, thought bubbles and more. "While we [might] look at the soap bubble as a continuous whole, it really isn't. Instead it is a series of local tensions and relations. The whole, as Morton puts it, exists only as a sensual object. We perceive wholes where there are really holes."

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