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Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Strategy:
"I do not mean to infer any set of special case paired dichotomies.
"I first developed the concept of synergy, the behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of the parts considered separately, which automatically identifies the unique behavior of the whole as resulting from the interrelationships existing between but not in any of the parts.
"Next I pointed out that there was nothing in atoms per se that predicted their association as chemical compounds; there was nothing in chemical compounds per se that predicted biological protoplasm; I said there was nothing in biological protoplasm per se that predicted camels and palm trees; nor the respiratory interexchange between those mammals and botanicals. Quite clearly, the more complex systems were never predicted by the behaviors of the lesser systems.
“I next pointed out that there is what we call synergetic grand strategy. The synergetic strategy is that the known behavior of the whole and the known behavior of some of the”
