A short spoken excerpt arguing that systems possess essential properties that are lost when the system is disassembled. The speaker uses concrete analogies (car/motor/steering wheel, body parts like hands and eyes, brain vs. mind) to claim that parts outside the whole no longer perform the system-level functions, drawing a parallel to human capacities such as reading and thinking.
When you disassemble a system, you not only lose the essential properties of the system, you lose the essential properties of the parts. The motor, which moves the automobile. Without a motor, a car can't go. But take the motor out of a car and it can't move anything, including itself. It just sits there. The steering wheel determines the direction of the car. Take it off the car and put it on the table. It doesn't do anything. It just sits there. And you're much the same as a human being. You have certain essential characteristics which differentiate you from other animals. For example, you can write, you can read. Other animals can't do either. You can write. Your hand can't write. That's easy to demonstrate by cutting it off and putting it on a table and asking it to write. Your eyes can't read or see. You see, eyes taken out of the head don't do anything. They just roll around. The brain can't think, you think. And therefore, when a system is taken apart, it loses its essential properties.
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