(July 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm)Consilius Wrote: The machine can be broken because the inertia can be broken.
Inertia can be broken - that's the first I'm hearing of it.
(July 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm)Consilius Wrote: Water is not intrinsically blue. The colorless attribute of water does not change. It's only an illusion created by light, and not a property of the water body. If the lighting is changed, so does the water's color. The attribute is not definite.
If it has color, then its colorless attribute has changed.
(July 16, 2013 at 9:35 pm)Consilius Wrote: The attributes of the atoms are not invisibility and visibility. They are small and big, which are subjective terms. They are not opposites.
Small and big are not opposite? Which school did you do to?
Regardless, the point that the whole is different than simply the sum of its parts - that it can have aspects not found in any of its parts or have aspects found in every part missing - still stands. All your rationalizations and evasions about "how" it becomes different wouldn't change the fact that it is - in fact - different.