I would say that cities are physically constructed but they emerge culturally
and socially. (01)
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Ed, (03)
EB> ...We can have software that dynamically finds its counterparts and
constructs the system it was designed to run, but it doesn't "emerge". (04)
Why not? Do cities emerge or being constructed? Certainly someone on this forum
should be able to see a distinction here without referring to magic. Cells in
the organisms are being constructed, but not the organisms. How is software
different. In fact many biologists compare living things with software. (05)
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