Quote:
Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
For many, the feeling that life is more than the sum of its parts is sufficient.
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I'll take that, but without the religion, thank you
I am currently not reading (started it but got sidetracked
) a book by Edgar Morin, who is a French thinker of complexity. Probably not the most adequate wording, but I hope you see what I mean. Some atoms get together and you get a molecule, whose properties are not the same as the sum of the atoms' properties. Some of these molecules somehow got together and formed the beginning of a cell. Then some cells got together and a living organism was born. Living organisms can sometimes form incredibly rich and complex societies. And here I am, typing this when I should be working (again).
Isn't life wonderful?