As obvious as it might seem, it’s important to differentiate cause and effect. Aspects of a system emerge from the properties of the elements of that system, not the other way around.
If you have a chunk of ice, it’s because the temperature of the individual molecules of water within that chunk is low enough for the whole mass to become solid. But if you want the individual molecules of a bucket of water to get colder, you can’t accomplish that by trying to hold the water into a solid shape. In other words, you can’t generate the cause by trying to artificially generate the effect.
The Opportunity Machine 