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    Challenges→Matter and motion cannot produce thought and consciousness.

    Emergent properties at higher levels of organization are causally novel and need not be present in the constituent parts, as water's liquidity is absent from individual H2O molecules.

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    Causally novel(describing whether emergent properties can actually make things happen)
    Having the power to cause things to happen in ways that are genuinely new or different from what the basic building blocks could do on their own.
    Constituent parts(as used in metaphysics)
    The basic building blocks or individual pieces that make up a larger thing.
    Levels of organization(what a causal explanation might cross between)
    Different scales of complexity in nature, like atoms (smallest), molecules, cells, organisms, and ecosystems (largest)—each level has its own rules and patterns.
    Liquidity(as used in this philosophical example)
    The property of being a liquid—able to flow and take the shape of its container.
    emergent properties

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