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Structures are wholes different from the sum of their parts. In this chapter, I elaborate this point through the language of category theory.
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I thank Mario Alemi for this example.
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Neuman, Y. (2017). On Structures and Wholes. In: Mathematical Structures of Natural Intelligence. Mathematics in Mind. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68246-4_11
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