ryan
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It is not the "many tiny parts" we experience but the sensory data that reach our brain. the "wholeness" is an illusion, its just how the brain (re)presents an aspect (sweden) of all this data.
So if wholes are illusions, then how can it be true that "Sweden" is a whole word or H2O is a whole water molecule? Without wholeness much of everything that we presume in linguistics, science, philosophy etc. would be false or an illusion.
Paradoxically, if you are correct about wholeness being an illusion, then you are ultimately wrong because "truths or falsities" require wholeness.
What you see as "only different configuration" is a wast, complicated dynamic interaction between billions of higly organiced and specialised of parts. (Neurons etc) neurons are well known of being able to react on data and produce logically processed output,.But if the brain is only a different configuration of the same kinds of parts,
Another example is computers: computers are just another "configuration of the same kind of parts" (atoms) but you wouldnt say that computers cannot recognize patterns and for example detect what is sweden and what is not sweden?
But now you are using your own agency for granted when you observe and determine how a computer functions.