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=== "The whole is more than the sum of its parts" ''Aristotle'' ===
=== "The whole is more than the sum of its parts" ''Aristotle'' ===
Emergence describes how novel properties can arise from lower-complexity parts, where these properties are not observed.<sup>[[Team:ETH_Zurich/project/references#refEmergence|[12]]]</sup> This phenomenon is wide-spread in nature. One straight-forward example is water: from the molecules of H<sub>2</sub>O, which are here considered as simple subparts, we are able to consider the liquid "water" at a higher level of complexity, with properties such as viscosity, pressure, transparency...
Emergence describes how novel properties can arise from lower-complexity parts, where these properties are not observed.<sup>[[Team:ETH_Zurich/project/references#refEmergence|[12]]]</sup> This phenomenon is wide-spread in nature. One straight-forward example is water: from the molecules of H<sub>2</sub>O, which are here considered as simple subparts, we are able to consider the liquid "water" at a higher level of complexity, with properties such as viscosity, pressure, transparency...

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