sliding scale why?
if you take apart a lawn mower...is it a sliding scale of lawn mowerness?
or parts?
i quite fail to see how a theory of emergant properties requires that:
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		| For something to "appear" it must be present in some quantity and quality in the initial state. | 
	
 For water to appear, you don't need little tiny water thingys.  you need hydrogen and oxygen.  niether act like water until combined...