" You can take a watch apart and analyze its parts, but they won’t tell you the time of day. It’s the same with any holon. The wholeness of the holon is not found in any of its parts, and that puts an end to a certain reductionistic frenzy that has plagued Western science virtually from its inception. Particularly with the systems sciences, the vivid realization has dawned: we live in a universe of creative emergence. "
― Ken Wilber , A Brief History of Everything