When Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Component Parts in a Constantly Changing Universe?
This paper was prepared for “Continuity + Change: Perspectives on Science and Religion,” a program of the Metanexus Institute, June 3-7, 2006, in Philadelphia, PA. Abstract: Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE) suggested that the entire “world” is in a state of perpetual flux, and that nothing remains the same for any length of time except for the…