emergent-property-hunting

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Seek properties that emerge from combination (non-additive)

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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	%
web-search	25	0%
web-research	10	0%
paper-overview	25	0%
paper-search	15	0%
paper-research	8	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

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic	When to use
blend-construction	Construct complete 4-space blends with emergent structure. Orchestrates input-space-construction → generic-space-extraction → blend-composition.
emergence-detection	Detect and validate emergent properties from combinations. Orchestrates emergent-property-identification → blend-elaboration.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
blend-elaboration	Run blend as mental simulation
combinatorial-synthesis	Synthesize all combinatorial creativity outputs
emergent-property-identification	Identify non-additive properties from combinations
vital-relation-mapping	Map 15 vital relations between concepts