Steven, take the ecosystem(s)! One with 6 participating systems.
If you just add the systems that make the whole numerically (hierarchically)
you get 6 discrete units. But when you look at the ecosystem as a whole - a
holarchy - you get a unit that is more than the individual participants.
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Or the human body: each cell is alive but the sum of the cells that make up
the human is greater than the eqivalent of 1+1=2.
N'est pas? Oops! Sorry that's two (2) examples! :-)
Ray
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> give one (1) example.
>
> Steven
>
> Dada is not dead
> Watch your overcoat
>
>
>
> Hello Steven,
>
> You wrote in part:
> > All reality is conditioned. I'm not such a Cartesian to believe that
there
> > is one and only one reality, but I'm not enough of a cosmologist to
think
> > that there is a reality somewhere where 1 + 1 does *not* = 2. So I guess
> I'm
> > a conditional conditionalist. How's that for obfuscating?
> >
>
> But, with synergy, there are many times when 1+1= more than 2, even in
this
> world!! :-)
>
> >From an old practitioner of obfuscation!! :-)
>
> Ray
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