 Emergence. When many simple objects interact with each other, they can form a system that has qualities that the objects themselves don't. A multitude of small elements tied up together will end up having different properties compared to their original state. This term originates from the Latin verb emergo, which roughly translates into arise or rise up. And you can look at simple mathematical rules creating living patterns or traders contributing to the stock market, or hell we can go a little bit deeper and look at the neurons creating consciousness. And the truth is that emergent phenomena are everywhere in the universe. And emergence is not meant to explain the world around us in a detailed manner, it is simply a macro mechanism of understanding. If you feel like you don't particularly understand a specific structure or system, you can use emergence to get the better grasp of the macro. In principle, if I have to talk about the current state of our planet, I will have to tell you what all the atoms are doing. But I have no idea what they are doing. What I can tell you is that in the real world, to predict what the earth is doing, I will have to talk about the center of mass of the earth, where that is now and where it is moving. So only using an incredibly tiny amount of information, I can make incredibly precise and accurate predictions. I can have this enormous handle over what the world is doing, ignoring almost all the data that there is about the specific state of the world. And this is what emergence does, is when you don't need to know almost anything about the specific system. On the other hand, you can work with a certain very very special high leverage pieces of info that you can use to make pretty accurate predictions. And when thinking about how we can use emergence in our day to day life to help ourselves better make sense of the world, I personally like to come back to it every time I'm in a bad mood, as something did not work out in the world around me. So if I find myself complaining about how the traffic in the subway is awful today, instead of getting mad, I'm trying to picture and understand it through the lenses of emergence. The person wakes up, eats food, prepares the clothes and goes to work. What we do not often take into account is the multitude of elements interacting with each other that created the state of that specific person, state of being, of leaving the day job and family. We often label the properties of the system as bad, when we should be really looking at the properties of the relationships between the system and us, the environment. It is indeed a continuous flow and oftentimes a rabbit hole. This has been understanding emergence in 100 seconds. Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one.