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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
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Subject: Re: Electrons, etc., may TOO be deterministic.
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Michael Ellis says (buried in a long interesting discussion)
>     Living things are notoriously nonhierarchical in their design, and I am
>     hardly alone in supposing that, during the evolution of life, nonlocal
>     interactions may have been put to use in very central organizing roles.
> *** Frankly, I am not surprised that the problems encountered in the life
>     sciences have proven intractable to any primitive cause-and-effect
>     analysis that sees everything mechanistically. ***
***[emphasis added]

   There has been much progress in the life sciences for many decades, with
no indication of running out of steam.  What are these intractable to 
cause-and-effect problems?
--henry schaffer  n c state univ