Re: NOVA on Emergence

Rolf wrote, On 2007/07/09 05:54:
"Mike Ruskai" <BUTthannydI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've always disliked this statement. It's never true. The whole is
always precisely the sum of its constituent parts. Anyone who says
otherwise just doesn't know how to do the arithmetic.

So I wonder, how do you do the sum of the parts of your body? It is mostly
water, you know, the rest is almost negligible. Slightly contaminated,
walking water, that's what you are.

"Big ugly bags of mostly water."

.

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