"Of the rest of the thought patterns, holism is the one most obviously directed at emergence. Holism is a pattern of thinking that is designed to direct your attention up to where emergent properties can be most easily seen - at the level of the system rather than at the level of the parts. It stands in contrast to reductionism which takes your focus directly onto the parts and it does it specifically to get the thinker to consider emergence. That reductionist tendency has the allure of the certainty of the tangible components and away from the intangible nature of emergence. "

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