The institutions that do this may emerge spontaneously, but most do not.

In areas where government knows better than to interfere, however, something like genuine meritocracy can emerge spontaneously.

In simulations of planetary dynamos, reversals often emerge spontaneously from the underlying dynamics.

From the point of view of physics, spirals are lowest-energy configurations which emerge spontaneously through self-organizing processes in dynamic systems.

Some participatory organizations emerge spontaneously and are better described by the word self-organization, others are initially designed and organized by entrepreneurs.