Here are the slides.
In the past, when explaining emergence I have liked to use the example of geometry. However, one can argue that a limitation of that case is there are not necessary many interacting components to the system. Hence, I think the example of language, discussed by Michael Polanyi is better.
You have put water is wet and a single H20 molecule is not. There is one interesting application area. For example concentrated emulsions have high percentage of water . However, external moisture due to humidity makes this concentrated emulsions unstable. A minute quantity of water externally can create havoc for emulsion stability,
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