>On Feb 11, 4:10 pm, r norman wrote:
>> On 11 Feb 2007 12:47:36 -0800, "*Hemidactylus*"
>> wrote:
>[snip]
>> >Hierarchical organization in groups of animals (known colloquially by
>> >the nominalist pseudo-labels "human" and "canine") easily break down
>> >to its basis at the quantum level. It's all atoms, light waves and
>> >sound waves. Nothing more. Talk of innate behavior and learned
>> >behavior and "brains" and social dynamics is mere nonsense foisted
>> >upon us by emergent neo-vitalists. If you can't take it down to modern
>> >physics you're talking gibberish.
>
>> I'm with you all the way on this one. John has already confessed to
>> being mostly empty space.
>
>If so he has, 'tis no slick cause for quick dismissal: As I understand
>it, most space is of the empty kind, and most empty space is filled
>with dark matter. Science and metaphysics therefore merge, the sum to
>be found in that much-misunderstood writ of holy wisdom:
>
> Yesterday upon the stair
> I met a man who wasn't there.
> He wasn't there again today
> Oh how I wish he'd go away.

Sounds holistic to me! The being of nothingness.

And any cause is slick cause for quick dismissal of John.