thoughts - "emerge"
Been thinking about social psychology during emergencies and how during some emergencies people come together in a powerful way (ala post 9-11) and then related that to the idea of emergent behaviour in games, and decided to look up the etymology of the word:
emerge 1563, from M.Fr. emerger, from L. emergere "rise out or up," from ex- "out" + mergere "to dip, sink" (see merge). The notion is of rising from a liquid by virtue of buoyancy. Emergency "unforeseen occurrence" is c.1631. Emergent (adj.) was first recorded c.1450.
3:55 AM March 18, 2005 Comments 0
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