So, we are nothing more than chemicals acting upon each other and for no higher reason than any other chemical reaction?
So, we are nothing more than chemicals acting upon each other and for no higher reason than any other chemical reaction?
Who said that?
It has been a while since we've had a good discussion of the composition fallacy, the division fallacy, and the concept of emergence.
If a rock falls and breaks into three smaller rocks, all sitting on the flat surface of the ground, how many objects are there? Three rocks? Three rocks and a triangle? Where did that fourth object, the triangle, "come from"?