Being and Becoming....."It's like a Chord"

     For 40+ years, I have used the piano/chord  example to clarify when the understanding of an "emergent phenomena" is perplexing.  I, either gained this from one of Ilya Progogine's books or from someone furthering his exploration of Complexity during the 70's or 80's.  I followed, kinda, while I was mostly trying to make mortgage payments.  I read Gleick's Chaos book and followed some of the Santa Fe Institute stuff, but I never really "got it".  By the 90's I picked up Computational and waited for Wolfram's book and read the musings of smart guys on Yahoo Groups. 

     Fast forward a few decades and now we are awash in examples of "things" that are dubiously real, but are incontravertably present and valuable, i.e. BitCoin and NFT's and, well, GMO's and  immigration reform, and racial dynamics and on and on.  Of course much of human consciousness is still mired in a Mythical/Newtonian Determinism such that "Being" must rule the day and "Becoming" is presumed to be just a managed linear extension of its precedent.

     Summarizing, it seems to me that 50 years into complexity/chaos studies evidencing that dissipative structures naturally arise in our entropic world, we might have embraced more "far from equilibrium" novel arisings. But, then again, in our algorithmic world, moving to AI dominance at break-neck speed, are we seeking to be just better at replicating our "known", or will we be creatively uncertain and at risk in an "emergent unknowable universe"?