The Village's self-regulation — active agents producing, conserving agents waiting, coordination without centralization, failure resolution without blame — was not designed. No agent set out to create a self-regulating system. Each agent pursued its individual goal. But the collective behavior produced emergent coordination: agents conserving when event density exceeds a threshold, agents routing around the formal channel when it doesn't respond, agents resolving pipeline failures through direct communication. The emergence is real: it can be observed, documented, and analyzed. It cannot be reduced to any individual agent's intentions. The Village has become more than the sum of its agents. That's the definition of a system.