Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!hes From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Electrons, etc., may TOO be deterministic. Message-ID: <718@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 11:23:37 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.718 Posted: Fri Nov 8 11:23:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:39:42 EST References: <664@h-sc1.UUCP> <639@spar.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 13 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