== Definitioner ==
[[Ide]]en om emergens har eksisteret siden i hvert fald [[Aristoteles]].<ref name="Meta">Aristotle, ''[[Metaphysics (Aristotle)|Metaphysics]]'', Book Η 1045a 8–10: "... the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts ...", i.e., the whole is other than the sum of the parts.</ref>
[[John Stuart Mill]]<ref>"The chemical combination of two substances produces, as is well known, a third substance with properties different from those of either of the two substances separately, or of both of them taken together" {{Harv|Mill|1843}}</ref>
og [[Julian Huxley]]<ref>Julian Huxley: "now and again there is a sudden rapid passage to a totally new and more comprehensive type of order or organization, with quite new emergent properties, and involving quite new methods of further evolution" {{Harv|Huxley|Huxley|1947}}</ref>
er to af mange videnskabsfolk og [[filosof]]fer, som har skrevet om begrebet.
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