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    Challenges→The universe will attain deity as an emergent quality from the complex whole.

    Deity traditionally requires attributes like necessary existence and aseity, which emergent properties by definition cannot possess, as they are causally dependent on prior conditions.

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    Key Terms

    Aseity(a key divine attribute in classical theism)
    A technical term (from Latin) meaning absolute independence or self-sufficiency—the quality of not needing anything outside yourself to exist or function.
    Causally dependent(as used in metaphysics and logic)
    When something is caused or brought about by something else; if A is causally dependent on B, then B causes A to happen.
    Necessary existence(Contrasted with contingent existence in discussion of God's mode of being)
    Existence that is not contingent; the being does not just happen to exist or not exist.
    deity(Distinguished from God as a body; deity is an emergent quality, not a presently possessed attribute)
    A quality that the whole world is in process towards acquiring, not yet achieved and possibly never to be achieved

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    emergent properties(philosophy of science / mereology)
    Properties of a whole that make it 'more than the sum of its parts,' not reducible to or predictable from the properties of the individual components alone

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