>>10938198The concept of emergence is not absurd. It's a practical understanding of how interactions between small things can themselves be bundled as greater, more complex things. Take for example, Conway's Game of Life. It's just a 2-dimensional plane of binary blocks governed by 3 simple rules. Yet using these rules, you can manifest very interesting results like in pic related. Having an understanding of the moving and interacting parts in a system is not absurdist, it's practical.
