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According to Moore, a moral actor cannot survey the “ goodness ” inherent in the various parts of a situation, assign a value to each of them, and then generate a sum in order to get an idea of its total value.
A moral scenario is a complex assembly of parts, and its total value is often created by the relations between those parts, and not by their individual value.
The organic metaphor is thus very appropriate: biological organisms seem to have emergent properties which cannot be found anywhere in their individual parts.
For example, a human brain seems to exhibit a capacity for thought when none of its neurons exhibit any such capacity.
In the same way, a moral scenario can have a value far greater than the sum of its component parts.

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