# Revolution and Rediscovering Emergence By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2024-03-08 Make no mistake that a revolution is always brewing. Additionally, make no mistake that when and exactly how it will happen is unpredictable. Only in hindsight will it seem evident and predictable. Revolutions have emergent properties, meaning their underlying behavior is the transcendence of microscopic entities into a singular macroscopic entity. While our scientific methods are good at exploring things like individuals and countries separately, we struggle to understand how individual behavior transcends and predicts country behavior. Thus, our theories typically are only good at explaining one level of resolution at a time rather than the transition. But, revolution is not an entity - it is the transition. Therefore, we lack any coherent view of it. There are groups of people who study these transitions, and often, they come to several conclusions. Primarily, they find that prediction is hard, but the solution space is predictable. Perhaps this is partly the origin of human phrases like "it's not a matter of if, but when." There is wisdom passed down through the ages via stories and phrases like this. Emergent behavior has always existed. It might be the defining characteristic of life. We rediscovered it when mathematics and computational capabilities caught up to lived experiences. What else is missing because we are stuck in the current paradigm of thought and technology? No doubt we are missing more fundamentals than we care to admit. The wisdom of the ancients has survived thousands of years for a reason. If viewed as theories, they are by far the most tested and validated theories in humanity's experimental existence. #### Related Items [[Revolution]] [[Emergence]] [[Behavior]] [[Wisdom]] [[Predictive Analytics]] [[Experiments]]