[MD] What is SOM?

[David M]

> [Krimel]

>
> I think this also would be helpful with regards to your confusion about
> pluralism and essentialism. The pluralism that I would support and I think
> is consistent with the MoQ and with James is that there are many ways to
> understand the world around us. This is epistemological pluralism.
>
> You have turned this into a metaphysical pluralism that I think has been
> rejected by nearly everyone who has seriously addressed the issue from Lao
> Tsu, Buddha and Jesus to Einstein, Darwin and James.
>

DM: The thing I wouldsay in support of metaphysical pluralism is
that it suggests that it is all real, all levels of SQ are as real as any 
other,
it rejects any formof essentialism. There is just energy and its many forms,
Aristotle said that -often mistranslated as matter and form.