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. 2006 Nov 7;4(13):175–182. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0173

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The emergence of objects. Objects emerge at higher scales from interactions at lower scales. Molecular interactions at one scale give rise to a cell at a higher scale: interactions between cells generate an organ; interactions between organs generate an organism; and interactions between organisms generate a society.