"Emergence and levels are found everywhere except in classical mechanics, which deals only with bodies small and large. This science overlooks the fact that a collection of particles, such as water molecules, can organize itself in different ways: as snowflakes, ice pellets, liquid drops, lakes, rivers, seas, or clouds. Each of these has things that others lack. Other familiar examples of emergence and levels are bricks-wall-house-town, population-gang-firm-conglomerate, and letter-word-phrase-sentence-text. The higher levels are dependant upon the lower ones but they are not reducible to them in an ontological sense even if the complex things (systems) are shown to emerge from the interaction of their constituents. Analysis should explain emergence, instead of trying to eliminate it."

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