"Emergence is, nonetheless, an excellent word to describe historical development or evolution. What we can see in the development of the natural world is the successive formation of new and well-organized entities or systems that impose a set of boundary conditions or constraints on their individual components - or subsystems. With the advent of multicellular life the individual cell not only lost its freedom of movement, it was also assigned a particular specialization - to be, for instance, a liver cell, a nerve cell, or a skin cell - and was thereby definitively cut off from the rest of its inner potential. Multicellularity is therefore an emergent quality in the sense that it establishes a set of hitherto nonexistent rules.

Slots and Values
ref	36
source	Unnamed