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Since the 19th century, this concept is one of the cornerstones and in the same time puzzles of statistical mechanics. On the other hand, there is the empirical experience where one witnesses the emergence, growth and diversification of new self-organized objects with ever-increasing complexity. When modeling them in terms of simple discrete elements one finds that the emergence of collective complex adaptive objects is a rather generic phenomenon governed by a new type of laws. These \u201cemergence\u201d laws, not connected directly with the fundamental laws of the physical reality, nor acting \u201cin addition\u201d to them but acting through them were called \u201cMore is Different\u201d by Phil Anderson, \u201cdas Maass\u201d by Hegel etc. Even though the \u201cemergence laws\u201d act through the intermediary of the fundamental laws that govern the individual elementary agents, it turns out that different systems apparently governed by very different fundamental laws: gravity, chemistry, biology, economics, social psychology, end up often with similar emergence laws and outcomes. 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