An Emergent Concept is a slight variation on Consensus Reality that is accepted as plausible. The hallmarks of an Emergent Concept as opposed to other Memes (urban myths or viruses of the mind) are that EC are increasingly accepted as truth or possibility, based upon other empirical or anecdotal evidence in the mind of the believer or society (in it's subsets) as a whole. EC can be viewed as fad, or common causal reality building. EC have no relationship to truth or fact, but are simply engines bringing individual concepts of truth into the mainstream.
Example Usage of Emergent
dslaybaugh: "If you smoke cigarettes your a sinner. If you smoke a cigar, you are Emergent Christian" @edgarlira
mitohistoriador: —the re-Emergent Twins of the Sun and Moon overcome the dominion of death and despair
mitohistoriador: the re-Emergent Twins of the Sun and Moon overcome the dominion of death and despair,
