[Right Wing Professor]

In that model the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, new features emerge (such as intelligence in biological life) such that new language is necessary to describe the whole. The same can be said of things made, new language is necessary to describe the thing.

So you're saying that a human being is not merely a sum of his parts? Now why didn't anyone else think of that?

/sarcasm.

[js1138]

This is an interesting development. I've been arguing emergent properties (a phrase I got from Ernst Mayr) for about six months, and it turns up here.

[hosepipe]

[ So you're saying that a human being is not merely a sum of his parts? Now why didn't anyone else think of that? /sarcasm. ]

Too deep for ya, eh!...
You packed it in before the good part.. Think about it.. You can do it..