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But even a truly scientific man tends to look at his fellow human beings as PERSONS, as SEPARATE (and complete) individuals, rather than Be-ings. IS-ings. Happenings. Processes. Not static, as in:
1. An identity built from and bound within a collection of molecules --- you don't see the individual molecules, but you know they are there.
2. A nuclear-bound energy-being that is held together by mysterious objects that are 99% empty of "space" that we call "atoms".
3. A conscious entity inexplicably inside a quantum field of indeterminacy.
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How'd you know what truly scientific people tend to see? maybe philosophically naive scientists, but they're not scientific.
number 3 is dualist?
I thought mereology had been mentioned here, but I guess not.
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mereology
ˌmɛrɪˈɒlədʒi/
noun PHILOSOPHY
the abstract study of the relations between parts and wholes.
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Are we something more than our parts? or are the only things that exist the fundamental building blocks? with the rest being some fitness relevant 'unreal' pattern.
Mereological nihilism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <- i'm going with this one