[MD] What is SOM?

[Platt Holden]

[Krimel]
This is not an invitation to ignore or devalue the study of
> the
> nervous system where in ALL experience resides. Like consciousness
> experience is not a thing, it is a process. It is a process that takes
> place
> among the biological patterns of a nervous system.

Krimel's assertions are not only denied by sponges (they have no nervous 
system), but also by Pirsig who inhabits a somewhat higher level:

"I think the answer is that inorganic objects experience events but do not 
react to them biologically socially or intellectually.  They react to these 
experiences inorganically, according to the laws of physics." Note 30, 
Lila´s Child