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Elephant
An allegory A king has an elephant shown to five blind men. The first one feels the trunk and says, "He has the form of a snake!" The second grabs a leg and says, "An elephant is like a tree trunk." The third touches the ear and says in astonishment, "A giant cabbage leaf..." The fourth feels the tusk and thinks it is a sword. The fifth touches the tail and calls out: "A paintbrush!"
Each of the five blind men is right, and yet an elephant is more than just a trunk, a leg, or an ear. It is all at once. It is the sum of the individual perspectives. If various partial aspects succeed in communicating with each other, the individual pieces of knowledge add up to a meaningful whole.
Siehe auch: Metaphysics Network Emergence Linkage
