>And you believe the sum can never be greater than the parts?

That would seem to be a physical impossibility to me. If you can offer a scientific explanation for how that could be, I'm eager to listen.

That's not to say I don't believe in emergent qualities, i.e. several brain cells grouped together can exhibit qualities that a single brain cell cannot (consciousness for example.) But to say that something can affect matter in violation of natural laws seems irrational to me.