Panmere

The view that there are macro-properties that do not supervene on micro-features studied by physics is sometimes labelled emergentism. The suggestions is that, where there is no supervenience, macro-properties must miraculously come out of nowhere. But why? There is nothing of the newly landed about these properties. They have been here in the world all along, standing right beside the properties of microphysics. Perhaps we are misled by the feeling that the set of properties studied by physics is complete….The immediate point is that predictive closure among a set of properties does not imply descriptive completeness.
— Nancy Cartwright , The Dappled World