G.E. Moore

Om att detaljer kan utgöra något mer än deras enskilda egenskaper.

The value of a whole must not be assumed to be the same as the sum of the values of its parts / G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica, § 18.

The organic metaphor is thus very appropriate: biological organisms seem to have emergent properties which cannot be found anywhere in their individual parts. For example, a human brain seems to exhibit a capacity for thought when none if its neurons exhibit any such capacity. / From wikipedia.org about G.E. Moore