Romansh: Here is an example of simple system from which a complex emergent behaviour can be observed. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U39RMUzCjiU > > But there is no "whole" being greater than the sum of the parts here.-There is nothing emergent here. Just complex movement caused by the weight of the parts and expressed by parallelograms of force. Simple physics is not an expression of the emergence of consciousness which is not physical and does not disobey the first law.