I don't understand. How does “more than the sum of their parts” lead to “a ghost in the machine”?
It means if you take us apart and put us back together again the ghost will have left. It will be a huge disappointment for cryogenics.
If people want longer lives the body will have to be kept alive in an induced coma state and heart rate slowed. Or use some novel regenerative therapy.
Otherwise that machine (body) is never coming back to life once its ghost has left.
It means an entirely different type of neuroscience that most scientists are uncomfortable with. Having to do with Consciousness