@grimalkina complex adaptive systems, networks, and emergent structures keep turning up everywhere interesting. As soon as you have a large enough mass of mutually interacting anythings, and you learn to zoom in and out across scales a bit, dynamic structures emerge. And when those structures generate constraints on the behavior of the component whatevers, you get something really interesting, something that at least gestures strongly in the direction of the infamous "downward causation" 😱