I'm trying to formulate here one thought (maybe it's not new): when we're discussing about complexity, we assume a role of the subject reflecting on the "objective reality". But we are evolving ( if we are lucky :-) ) and one time we recognize our ability to play a role of the new subject inside of the first one (let's say, the second-order subject)! (Somewhere I read that God is (?) the 7th-order Subject. Is It the same as the Watcher?) We (from this position) are able to reflect on our (from the previous position) ability to reflect... I think that some problems of complexity (from the perspective of the subject) like emergence maybe formulated better from the perspective of such the second-order subject.
--Mikhail
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