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Banzhaf explores the concept of emergence and how and where it happens in genetic programming [1]. Here we consider the question: what shall we do with it? We argue that given our ultimate goal to produce genetic programming systems that solve new and difficult problems, we should take advantage of emergence to get closer to this goal.

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  1. In comparison, about 17,300 articles have been written on genetic programming in the same period.

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Ekárt, A. Emergence in genetic programming. Genet Program Evolvable Mach 15, 83–85 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-013-9199-4

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