4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
2:05 p.m.
It is just one theoretical tradition that accepts that aggregation or the whole is equal to the some of the parts, others believe that the whole is less than and/or greater than the some of the parts.
You can't get there from where you are. you have to toss the atomism and start considering that there are molecules and moles which act fundamentally different as a whole than as a collection of atoms.
Some explicitly useful readings in this direction: * Plotinus * Anne Conway * Leibniz * Koestler * David Bohm And - Jeremy is right. The atomism is a different level of consideration entirely. geekin' out, ---elijah