Perhaps, new properties can arise {emergence, mind} that system units and relations cannot predict.
types
Perhaps, higher principles can describe complex systems too complex to allow predictions {benign emergence}. Perhaps, complex systems can create entirely new objects, events, structures, or functions {radical emergence}.
mind
Minds can be new things with new properties, derived from brain-part relations and combinations. Brains have components, and mind is the whole, with laws and phenomena that are not explainable just from brain parts and properties.
Like music from instruments, mind comes from brain but is not like brain. If instruments break, they can make no music, just as minds depend on functioning brains. Music resonates in instruments but does not actually affect music production, just as mind resonates in brain but does not affect brain function. However, mind does affect brain function.
consciousness
Perhaps, consciousness is an emergent, self-regulatory, goal-directed brain-state or brain-process property, rather than brain faculties or structures.
causation
Complex systems have new causation types {emergent causation}. Higher existences or processes form from lower existences or processes [Beckerman et al., 1992].
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