Every year in Australia there is a week of science outreach events in pubs, Pint of Science. I am giving a talk tomorrow night, Emergence: from physics to sociology.
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.
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