Generating Wholes In living systems, the whole generates the parts. The parts do not exist a priori. Joe Norman Photo by Joel Peel Author: Joe Norman Title: PhD Complex Systems and Brain Sciences Affiliation: Founder Applied Complexity Science, LLC, Lecturer at the Real World Risk Institute and affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute Twitter: @Normonics Web: jwnorman.com Date: January 11, 2019 What is a whole and how is one generated?