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You are aware systems are more than the sums of their parts...?

A book is more than the sum of its words.

A painting is more than the sum of its pigments

Music is more than the sum of its sine waves.

This is called emergence and is a very basic principle of - well anything, really. The same building blocks arranged in different ways will result in entirely different new objects.

If you're interested in philosophy, feel free to read a few Wikipedia articles. You're not the first one to ask about the nature of feelings and I am not qualified to have deeper discussions about this topic.

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