"What counts is understanding the functions of the various subsystems . A cell is not a dominance heiracrchy ."
"* * Sheer nonsense . What couints is the functioning of the system as a whole . Reducing it to subsytems , and those subsystems to material and mechanical components , is a task subordinate to the principal , primary objective , i.e. , an understanding of the whole , what is it that it is , why it does what it does , and how it does it . Only you anthropocentrically expand your psychological understanding of connotations of words pertaining to human social systems to all other systems , everywhere . But that is , of course , what you guys did when first you applied the term 'selection ' to the behaviour of abstractions and other non-human entities , so no big surprise there , I guess ."
"What counts is understanding the functions of the various subsystems . A cell is not a dominance heiracrchy ."
"Sheer nonsense . What couints is the functioning of the system as a"