[MD] British Emergentism

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Arlo] 
> as soon as you claim a "reality", you inserted objectivism into your position. 

Agreed.  A surfer (or driftwood) goes faster or further on a big wave 
than on a smaller one, regardless of what he thinks.  So reality is not subjective.   
Consider (to extend the ocean metaphor) a coral reef: 

Is it a huge piece of calcium supporting many life forms or one large 
life form with a calcium exo-skeleton?  If objects were the fundamental reality, 

only one of these alternatives would be correct.  But if patterns are fundamental, 

both alternatives could be compatible.  (That's not to say it could be a pink 

elephant in a blue tutu.) 
Craig