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Likewise, a [[Reductionism|reducible]] phenomenon can be atomised into its fundamental components with no loss of essential qualities or properties; an ''irreducible'' one cannot — some of those properties emerge at a level of abstraction higher than the smallest components.
Likewise, a [[Reductionism|reducible]] phenomenon can be atomised into its fundamental components with no loss of essential qualities or properties; an ''irreducible'' one cannot — some of those properties emerge at a level of abstraction higher than the smallest components.
 
===On John Connor and big data===
Hence the irony in dash paradox question mark and dash about the rapacious tech companies and their are use of your data. go ahead; knock yourself out Colin use DuckDuckGo. Google won't care.it cares not about you and your data consumption but the the pattern that emerges from the aggregate of billions of people's data consumption. No one cares about you. your habits are probably perfectly reflected in the corpus without you.
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