Reading_Response_003- Weinstock_Emergence

Emergence is applied to the properties of a system that cannot be deduced from its components. 

In this article, forms of nature has been discussed from the perspectives of internal genetic reasons to the external environmental forces which influence the generating process of forms. Nature is the domain of all living things, all the forms of nature and of civilisation have an architecture, an arrangement of material in space and over time that determines their shape, size and duration. Non-living forms are not permanent static things but dynamic three-dimensional patterns produced by the continuous physical processes of the natural world, and are constantly being broken down and renewed.

Changes in the process of generating new forms has been considered as an dominant factor. Living forms are also subject to change but are persistent over time, organized by the internal biological processes of the natural world, and are constantly being broken down and renewed. Nature forms have the capacity to change significantly and to generate new forms, structures and properties from existing ones.

Forms existing in nature seem arbitrary and occasional, yet millions of factors work together resulting in an unique form, the interactions between influential factors and results also are parts of the generating process. Therefore all natural forms are inevitably generated by environment. Human beings perform a 'Master Builder' role in the chain of  producing forms. Human beings have evolved into advanced intelligent creatures being able to arrange complex materials and geometries. Energy is the necessity to both maintain existing forms and generate new forms. Human beings consume energy to conduct construction. All forms emerge from the dynamic processes by which natural systems, both living and non-living , produce organized arrangement of material in space and time. Cities are the largest and most complex material forms constructed by humans. Large and densely populated cities with monumental architecture.

Civilisation is the product of culture, and is advanced through the evolutionary trajectory of human forms and their increasing human ability to extract energy from nature, to manipulate the materials of nature, and the accumulation and propagation of information.