[MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ham]
> I have no quarrel with the fact that, existentially
 > speaking, man and the world about him are made up of
> inorganic and organic elements working together...
> Intellect, however, is not a collective process

I hope you see the self-contradiction here.  See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_neural_network

[Ham]
> Evolution...cannot answer the question "Why 
> are we here?".

First, there were apes & no humans.  Then there were humans.  
Q: Why?
A: Evolution.
Craig