Editing Ontology:Q174 (section)

== [[User:Reversedragon/FirstNineThousand|Prototype]] notes ==

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</li><li class="field_mdem" value="174" data-dimension="S">[[Ontology:Q174|atom-like entity]]  ->  an atom-like entity is a mostly-indivisible unit which contains the capacity for particular patterns when combined with particular other atom-like entities. a chemical element is the prototypical example: two hydrogens and one oxygen form water. but one hypothesis I am trying to investigate is the possibility that individuals of particular ideologies are atom-like entities, and when put together in various "compounds" they form specific ideologies. I feel like there is some remote possibility that one day there could just be a periodic table of ideologies that is as prosaic and numerical as the study of chemical elements and chemical compounds.<br /> an atom-like entity is <em>not</em> an entity that can be considered in total isolation from all others akin to a helium atom. I really don't like models like [[E:Q1980|Rothenberg's]] that imply that, because not even chemistry works that way. chemistry may be reductionist, but the predictable emergences from the elements are the whole study of chemistry.
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