On 7/3/09 12:30 PM, "david buchanan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Krimel and all:
>
> Ron posted a section from chapter 12 of Lila, including this part:
>
> In the past the logic has been that if chemistry professors are composed
> exclusively of atoms and if atoms follow only the law of cause and effect,
> then chemistry professors must follow the laws of cause and effect too. But
> this logic can be applied in a reverse direction. We can just as easily deduce
> the morality of atoms from the observation that chemistry professors are, in
> general, moral. If chemistry professors exercise choice, and chemistry
> professors are composed exclusively of atoms, then it follows that atoms must
> exercise choice too. The difference between these two points of view is
> philosophic, not scientific. The question of whether an electron does a
> certain thing because it has to or because it wants to is completely
> irrelevant to the data of what the electron does.
>
> dmb says:
>
> The logic of the past reduces chemistry professors to atoms and, as you can
> see, the MOQ reverses that reductionism.
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