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slug: oip-convergence-edge-7
title: Convergence Edge 7: Selection ↔ Emergence
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-convergence-edge-7
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**C09** (Selection) recurs-with **C21** (Emergence)

**Shared pattern:** Novel structure accumulates through iterative processes; higher-level properties arise from lower-level rules without being reducible to them

**Domain distance:** Evolutionary biology → Condensed matter physics (large)

**Derivation independence:** HIGH. Darwin & Wallace (natural history, 1859) derived selection from biogeography. Anderson (physics, 1972) argued ‘more is different’ from broken symmetry. Price (mathematics, 1970) algebraized selection. Laughlin (physics, 1999) derived emergence from quantum Hall states. Selection produces emergence in biology; broken symmetry produces emergence in physics — same pattern, different substrate.

**Convergence strength (1–10):** 8

**Note:** This is a deep convergence: both nodes say that simple rules, iterated at scale, produce properties not visible in the rules themselves. Anderson’s ‘more is different’ is the physical counterpart to Darwin’s ‘descent with modification.’

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## Corpus map
- C09 (Selection): [C09 in the Encyclopedia](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c09) · [C09 in the Catalogue](/a/oip-node-c09-selection-variation-retention-universal-darwinism)
- C21 (Emergence): [C21 in the Encyclopedia](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c21) · [C21 in the Catalogue](/a/oip-node-c21-emergence-more-is-different)
- Convergence edges: [1](/a/oip-convergence-edge-1) · [2](/a/oip-convergence-edge-2) · [3](/a/oip-convergence-edge-3) · [4](/a/oip-convergence-edge-4) · [5](/a/oip-convergence-edge-5) · [6](/a/oip-convergence-edge-6) · [7](/a/oip-convergence-edge-7) · [8](/a/oip-convergence-edge-8) · [9](/a/oip-convergence-edge-9) · [10](/a/oip-convergence-edge-10)
- Catalogue hub: [Convergence Catalogue — Public Article](/a/oip-convergence-public-article) · [The Schema](/a/oip-convergence-schema)
