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Emergent Structure The blend develops emergent structure that is not in the inputs. First, composition of elements from the inputs makes relations available in the blend that do not exist in the separate inputs. Composition：Blending can compose elements from the input spaces to provide relations that do not exist in the separate inputs. Second, completion brings additional structure to the blend. This structure of two people moving on the path can itself be viewed as a salient part of a familiar background frame: two people starting a journey at the same time from opposite ends of a path. Completion： We rarely realize the extent of background knowledge and structure that we bring into a blend unconsciously. Third, by means of completion, this familiar structure is recruited into the blended space. At this point, the blend is integrated: It is an instance of a particular familiar frame, the frame of two people walking on a path in opposite directions. By virtue of that frame, we can now run the scenario dynamically: In the blend, the two people move along the path. The Features of Blending Blending in the riddle of the Buddhist Monk has features that turn out to be universal for conceptual integration. Building an integration network involves setting up mental spaces, matching across spaces, projecting selectively to a blend, locating shared structures, projecting backward to inputs, recruiting new structure to the inputs or the blend, and running various operations in the blend itself. It is crucial to keep in mind that any of them can run at any time and that they can run simultaneously. The integration network is trying to achieve equilibrium. In a manner of speaking, there is a place where the network is “happy.” Context will typically specify some conditions of the equilibrium, as when we are instructed to find a solution to the riddle of the Buddhist Monk. The network will achieve equilibrium if structure comes up in the blend that