The Whole May Be Less Than the Sum of Its Parts

What if the whole is actually *less* than the sum of its parts? Curt Jaimungal challenges the assumption that complexity emerges predictably from components, exploring how the power set of interactions might reveal hidden constraints and counterintuitive limits in understanding systems—from physics to consciousness. This invitation to rethink emergence touches on why naive reductionism fails and what we might be missing when we assume we can simply add things up.