Emergent / collective behavior relation type

The target is a collective, organizational, or scale-dependent phenomenon of the source constituents and interactions; it is not a mere list or classical sum of constituents.

Directed semantics

Every direct mAtlas edge is an authored source → target assertion of this type.

Term code: emergence
Source role: Gives rise collectively to
Target role: Emerges from
Direct relations in this release: 14
Predecessor-level policy: incoming
Prerequisite traversal: incoming

Machine-readable record

/data/latest/relation-types/emergence.json provides this definition and the IDs of every direct relation of this type.

A path may traverse an edge backwards for connectivity, but that never reverses the authored source-to-target assertion.