From: ravi sharma <drravisharma@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Event Ontology
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 10:05 PM

John, Azamat, Rich

We have to agree that Whole is more than sum of parts such as life which generally obeys physics, chemistry etc. For example if a creature (non flying) falls down, it has to suffer consequences of acceleration due to gravity thus life may be lost but not the constituent matter. Thus in some philosophies the consciousness is the continuum that binds it all living or non-living! How will that fit into realism, nominalism or reductionism or will it be excluded by those - by limiting our understanding to living or non-living matter - who have not followed that line of reasoning?

Thanks.

Ravi

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Rich Cooper <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Seriously? You're going to insult him for (I guess) lack of clarity

immediately after composing the word salad above (not to mention the

rest of your message)?

Chris Menzel