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This is all kind of obvious. It just bugs me when philosophy generates problems that really don't need to exist by starting off with a higher level ontology than this which dismisses the emergent nature of the material world rather than deriving higher level concepts from this very flexible and contradiction-free model.
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When you are programming and you feel philosophical
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucio
The whole is not more than every property of all of its parts, wherein the parts' properties include their pairwise and setwise interactions. A whole is nothing more than an arbitrary grouping of interactions that mark their interacting parties as parts of the whole and aggregate other properties of those parts into properties (including interactions) of the whole.
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