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Emergent Behavior

Emergent behavior is the behavior of a system that does not depend on its individual parts but on their relationships with one another. Thus emergent behavior cannot be predicted by examination of a system's individual parts.
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Emergent behavior is behavior of a system that does not depend on its individual parts, but on their relationships to one another. Thus emergent behavior cannot be predicted by examination of a system's individual parts. It can only be predicted, managed, or controlled by understanding the parts and their relationships. Emergent behavior is also known as emergence, emergent property, or “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”
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