[MD] What is SOM?

[David M]

[Krimel]
All I have said is that static patterns at a lower level give rise to
conditions that allow emergence of a higher level. In the case of biology it
gives rise to the social level as a strategy for managing resources in the
environment that ensure the survival of our young. If you ignore the long
period of immaturity that each of us undergoes in childhood, you will not
understand why all humans cultures evolve strategies for devoting adult
resources to nurturing children. You will not see the importance of nuclear
and extended families. If you ignore the biologically determined need for
food and water you will not understand the importance of working to gather
food and water.

DM: True, but it only helps you understand a little tiny bit, worth 
mentioning,
but if you bang on about it you sound like a control freak or a reductionist
but I am sure you are not like that after a good drink and the chaos is 
obvious.