Examples for this conflict are e. g. bees , bees state , individual organs of a human being and the whole man . A case study with an electric wiring of two resistors makes the conflict obviously. The reductionist ascertains the value of the two resistors and the holist ascertains the type of the electric wiring. Emergentism means that a system has properties by the whole system, which are not in the part of this system. An example is the electric resonant circuit.
Many scientists think that life is an emergent quality.