... Basically, it uses some catchy phrases or ideas from chaos theory and the field of complex emergent systems to REPLACE the very phenomena it needs to explain. Alternatively, one finds "emergence" also used as a replacement word for things like consciousness, intelligence, and mind so it really explains nothing at all and just abuses language. Just another example of a book trying to give answers about phenomena which we really don't even know how to ask fundamental questions about...phenomena that may ultimately lie beyond our conceptual, rational grasp...