What Is a Part and What Is a Whole?

If you think of only these simplistic hierarchies, then that gives you a sort of false impression of control. But your body is not a dictatorship. And in fact, these dictatorships ere not able to produce the kind of highly creative, adaptable and robust systems such as even an ant. You couldn't control an ant through a dictatorial, hierarchical scheme or the ant colony that he's a part of. An ant can't live by himself. He is part of a colony. Even though a colony has a queen, the queen is not controlling all the ants. So it's this sort of distributed, decentralized, highly non linear, very tangled, messy system, which is an