In Reply to: "Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law" posted by Samuel A. (Sam) Cox on February 27, 2005 at 12:07:31

A whole may be somewhat more (or much less!) than the sum of its parts.

This relates to using philosophies or approaches to problem solving inappropriately as well as attempting to investigate the natural world in a certain way at too small a scale.

This fact (that a whole may be more or much less than the sum of its parts) also has implications about the phylogenic drift of individual expressions of consciousness (and life as an organizing process) over eternity in quasi-static higher dimensional cosmological models...

and the overall structured movement of the universe toward increasing order rather than chaos.

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