Hi Drosophilla
Don't you just love it when people confuse the analogy for the argument.
How's this for a lovely emergent property?
We even get a stick that's one more degree away from having any inherent property that could cause its motion.
Then we have this phenomenon causing camcorder batteries to be drained; making them that much closer to going to a land fill where they're gnawed on by a mole which dies. What property of rotating sticks is poisonous to moles?
Emergent properties just keep on emerging.
It's not the man that knows the most that has the most to say.
Anon