Diachronic Emergence as Transubstantiation

Abstract Diachronic emergence has recently been characterised as transformation. This aims to capture the thought that entities emerge are radically new or different. Transformation is hence closely linked with a central (but rarely raised) challenge for all emergentists: how account identity and individuation of involved in emergence. With this view, I develop probe four interpretations transformation: addition, replacement, fusion, transubstantiation. Of those, transubstantiation provides most plausible response about identity. Accordingly, diachronic transformative process whereby an individual passes from one primary kind another.