Most geoengineering proposals have unacceptable risk to benefit ratios due to the high potential for disastrous side effects as unintended consequences of emergent properties of complex biological systems. (realclimate.org)
If we grant the deterministic hypothesis that all bodies follow certain physical laws, then it has to be asserted that it would be at least logically possible to predict the emergence of emergent properties from the law - guided interaction of smaller bodies. (religion-online.org)
A rigorous concept of form is developing around the study of emergent properties in nature and man - made systems. (faith.org.uk)