28 Of Synergies and Phasing

You are a synergy of synergies, whose agency and behavior is not predictable by observing the behaviors of any of your separate physiological parts, component elements or their subassemblies. You are not a ‘mechanism’, a machine or clockwork whose behavior is the result of adding up the way all your individual parts behave. Actually, the word synergy is provocative. It flies in the face of centuries of reductionistic, mechanistic thought in philosophy and science that likens the universe and life itself to a grand machine or clockwork—orderly, knowable and predictable, Even today, this trend continues with the current quest in modern physics for a “Theory of Everything”—a single all-encompassing theoretical model of physics that can predict, explain and link together all known physical forces.