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 A property of a system or aggregated whole which is not shared by components of the system or the constituents of that body.
-{{author|Joe Norman}} with a great example of emergence and [[reductionism|irreducibility]] at [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iX7DPthz47YdkPB7MWHJG? Risky Conversations]: If you take a [[Möbius loop]] — a one-sided geometric shape created by taking a strip of paper, twisting it one half turn and looping it — and try to reduce it by breaking it into smaller parts, you lose the one-sidedness. Each of its segments has ''two'' sides. You can join any of its segments together, and they still have two sides. It is only when you twist the emerging structure and join it back on itself that the second side vanishes. The golden egg returns
+Joe Norman has a great example of emergence and [[reductionism|irreducibility]] at [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iX7DPthz47YdkPB7MWHJG? Risky Conversations]: If you try to break a [[Möbius loop]] into smaller parts, you lose its one-sidedness. Each of its segments has ''two'' sides. You can join any of its segments together, and they still have two sides. It is only when you twist the emerging structure and join it back on itself that the second side vanishes. The golden egg returns.
 So, “wetness” is a property of water, but not of a molecule of H<sub>2</sub>0. “Consciousness” is a property of a brain, but not the neural activity that ''comprises'' it.<ref>This [[paradox]] has derailed the philosophy of mind for hundred of years.</ref> “[[Bureaucracy]]” is an emergent property of a [[financial services]] organisation, not the individual communications within that organisation that make up the organisation. Well, not many of them, anyway.