[Air-l] conceptual lexicon

[elw at stderr.org]

>>> 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