¶ Whole Systems
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Whole Systems:
“I said synergy was behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the parts. A minimum system would be two. We can deal with the whole of the solar system if we want, but minimum system is two. And the behavior which can only be observed when there’s the plurality; it’s not any of the parts by itself. This makes it also very clear, once you get to the beginnings of things, that out of what we have as an a priori complete mystery… to many of us what Newton had really hypothesized-- that a body ought to keep in a straight line, that it really is deviating and being pulled by another-- is a very strange matter. Nothing could be stranger. The whole integrity of our Universe is here. The very essence of why there is any consciousness, any Universe. And yet it starts with absolute a priori mystery, within which a priori mystery there suddenly is a lucidly apprehendible mathematical behavior.”
