[MD] What is SOM?

[ian glendinning]

Hi Matt,

I think you are thinking of atoms in the elemental chemistry sense ie
an atom of carbon or oxygen or hydrogen, whatever.

If we are talking reality existing as fundamentally "quality" then we
are talking the smallest "quanta" of existence of quality ... the
equivalent of quarks or strings or whatever your favourite physics
metaphor ... personally I prefer Qubits.

An important point of all new physics ... since quantum mechanics ....
however poorly explained and embedded in everyday science, is that
there is (somehow) interconnectivity (non-locality) between one and
all. The jury is out on the explanations, (multiverses, holographic
universes, you name it) but the empirical evidence is everywhere as
one variation or another of the one-electron / two-slits experiment
... (after John Gribben).

Each "atomic" component does seem to "know" of the whole.

Ian

On Dec 19, 2007 9:17 PM, Matt <stealthymatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Pirsig]
> What, after
> all, is the likelihood that an atom possesses within its own
> structure enough information to build the city of New York?
>
> [Matt]
> Is this a question of likelihood? There are trillions of atoms that make up
> New York, each atom only has to hold its own space. The mind is composed of
> billions of atoms as well, so why not?
>
>