Editing Emergence (section)

==In religion and art==
In religion, emergence grounds expressions of [[religious naturalism]] and [[syntheism]] in which a sense of the [[sacred]] is perceived in the workings of entirely naturalistic processes by which more [[Complexity|complex]] forms arise or evolve from simpler forms. Examples are detailed in ''The Sacred Emergence of Nature'' by [[Ursula Goodenough]] & [[Terrence Deacon]] and ''Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing the Sacred'' by [[Stuart Kauffman]], both from 2006, as well as ''Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age'' by [[Alexander Bard]] & [[Jan Söderqvist]] from 2014 and ''Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World'' by Brendan Graham Dempsey (2022).{{cn|date=June 2024}}

[[Michael Pearce (artist)|Michael J. Pearce]] has used emergence to describe the experience of works of art in relation to contemporary neuroscience.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pearce|first=Michael J.|title=Art in the Age of Emergence|year=2015|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|location=Manchester, England|isbn=978-1443870573|url=http://www.cambridgescholars.com/art-in-the-age-of-emergence|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522021953/http://www.cambridgescholars.com/art-in-the-age-of-emergence|archive-date=2015-05-22}}</ref> Practicing artist [[Leonel Moura]], in turn, attributes to his "artbots" a real, if nonetheless rudimentary, creativity based on emergent principles.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Leonel Moura|date=16 July 2018|title=Robot Art: An Interview with Leonel Moura|journal=Arts|volume=7|issue=3|page=28|doi=10.3390/arts7030028|doi-access=free}}</ref>