emergent-property-hunting

name	emergent-property-hunting
description	Seek properties that emerge from combination (non-additive)
execution	strategy
used-by	combinatorial-creativity

Emergent Property Hunting

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.

State Ledger

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%

HARD-GATE

Cannot exit strategy until ≥80% of each budget line is consumed OR yield targets are met with justification for remaining budget.

Available Tactics

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

Available SOPs

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

Execution Guidance

1. Generate Combinations: Use combination-mapping to produce candidate combinations
2. Predict Properties: For each combination, predict what properties should exist if combination is merely additive
3. Simulate: Use blend-elaboration to run the combination as a mental simulation
4. Detect Emergence: Identify properties that appear in simulation but weren't predicted from additive model
5. Validate: Confirm emergent properties are genuine (not just overlooked additive properties)
6. Characterize: Describe the mechanism by which emergence occurs (interaction effects, threshold effects, structural effects)
7. Rank: Prioritize emergent properties by novelty and utility