Continuity is a comforting way to approach the world. How can something as well-known and so controversial as consciousness just suddenly appear in the universe?Synergy. Why is water wet at room temperature & flame-quenching when oxygen & hydrogen have none of those properties? Where did water's qualities "come from"?
James used the perception of music as one example. How can two or more frequencies combine to produce a sound completely different, with different qualities of timbre and pitch, that neither single frequency has in that quality, that are not the sum of the original qualities?