On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote:
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> Doug wrote:
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> > Repeated stresses/insults/disappointments/injuries could
> > change the biochemistry, no?
> >
> > Doug
>
> Yes. But on a physicalist view, stresses/insults/disappointments/injuries
> are all biochemical phenomena, and on a non-physicalist supervenience
> view, they are all caused by biochemical phenomena.
>
> -- Luke
Hey, why stop there? All biochemistry consists of molecules, so the true cause of biochemistry is molecular phenomena. Wait, atomic phenomena. Wait, subatomic ...
Levels of analysis here! Go back and read Kel's recent post about the sociological imagination and you'll see how incoherent your claim above is.
Miles