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To: betty boop
It's not easy to distinguish the action of interior phenomena [primordial behavior] from chemical necessity in DNA or interstellar dust. The same laws have to apply in some form to all matter, from the simplest sub-atomic particle to the largest galactic cluster, and that must include everything matter does since clearly life and consciousness are happening as a component of our galaxy--otherwise we cannot know anything.
78 posted on 07/06/2003 11:20:53 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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To: RightWhale
...clearly life and consciousness are happening as a component of our galaxy -- otherwise we cannot know anything....

Sure they are, Right Whale. That's not the issue. The issue is whether they are reducible to physical laws exclusively.

83 posted on 07/06/2003 12:03:49 PM PDT by betty boop (We can have either human dignity or unfettered liberty, but not both. -- Dean Clancy)
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