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