In some religions, you have the option of free will, but if you choose to exercise it, and if it goes against the grain of the source that disagrees with it, you’ are eternally damned. I think I’ve literally gone bald from scratching my head so much on this one.

I believe that both perspectives allow for a broader scope in explanation and perspective. Philosophically speaking, systems, theory, science and art, the emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that it’s parts do not have on their own and emerge only when they interact in a wider hole. Many water molecules join together to form river flows and ocean waves. There’s obviously an existence or formation of collective behaviors and properties that arise from the properties of parts on a larger and finer scale. But then again, one can actually think about how trees, other plants and animals help form a forest. We can see them at the same time in order to see how they are related, even though our mind’s eye is moving among views at different scales. Then we have more conventional methods. We May assign properties to a system that are actually properties of a relationship. Instead of describing the environment, we may just look at the system itself, until we implicitly can provide a description for a relationship. Indeed, we live in an emergent universe, in which is difficult to study any social or economic behavior that is not emergent. As far as regular and intelligible forms of patterns or concerned, the universe tends towards disorder; just as our bedrooms get messy over time if we don’t straighten them up and gases tend to disperse across a room. We know it takes energy to create order. So when seeing a particular pattern, we expect through investigation we can identify the force that caused it – cause and effect. Is the pattern important? Is it meaningful? Do both parallels have similar constructs? I firmly believe that every branch of science could contribute to a better understanding and broader perspective on all life forms in general. Nothing is absolute.