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Seek properties that emerge from combination (non-additive)
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Based on SOC occupation classification
| name | emergent-property-hunting |
| description | Seek properties that emerge from combination (non-additive) |
| execution | strategy |
| used-by | combinatorial-creativity |
Seek properties that emerge from combination (non-additive). Focus specifically on identifying and validating properties that exist in the combination but not in any individual component — the hallmark of genuine creative novelty.
| Resource | Target | Current | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| web-search | 25 | 0 | 0% |
| web-research | 10 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-overview | 25 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-search | 15 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-research | 8 | 0 | 0% |
Cannot exit strategy until ≥80% of each budget line is consumed OR yield targets are met with justification for remaining budget.
| Tactic | Role |
|---|---|
| combination-mapping | Enumerate combinations to test for emergence |
| emergence-detection | Detect and validate emergent properties |
| blend-construction | Construct blends to test for emergent structure |
| SOP | Role |
|---|---|
| emergent-property-identification | Identify non-additive properties |
| blend-elaboration | Run combinations as mental simulations |
| vital-relation-mapping | Map relations that enable emergence |
| combinatorial-synthesis | Synthesize emergence findings |
Perform bisociation at multiple abstraction levels
Complete blend with background knowledge
Compose new connections in blended space
Construct complete 4-space blends with emergent structure. Orchestrates input-space-construction → generic-space-extraction → blend-composition.
Run blend as mental simulation
Combinatorial Creativity Campaign — produce emergent concepts via concept blending, multi-level bisociation, and function combination (Fauconnier-Turner)
