[MD] Dawkins a Materialist

[Case]

[David M]

And I wonder whether there is anything much
different about so-called inanimate
behaviour when we take a look
at just what an active, buzzing,
changing sort of stuff it is.
The mechanistic, static and extended
notion of matter, is found to be formed
only when energies counteract each other
to form certain stabilities and repeating
patterns. What else is the frenzy
of protons, neutrons and electrons trapping
each other in a sort of prison -that
we call an atom?

[Case]
Exactly, when all of the counteracting forces cancel each other out, small
differences in balance or small unrelated forces become important. I think
of this as rounding error but the effect is that small probabilities take on
a deciding role. 

The importance of response-ability is that as complexity increases a greater
number of responses becomes possible.