abe smith

In Gould's new book{=last/final} of which I'm able only to read about 3pp max a night; delectable mind-springing business @ pp 597>599, about "individual" vs "plural": a qy which I've been puzzling over for a couple of decades now. e.g.Why, & how, do WE occur as discrete one-thing packages? &, At what point does the kid in utero become separate from the Mom in which it houses? Or is the infant still "part" of the Mother until some time after it is born? There's a whole lot more to this enchanting qy , all-sorts, than my midday brain can summon now here. Go to SJG's book & read the 3 pp in question & think about it. I may have to BUY{forsooth} it; on paperback; because in his vagarious wanderings-on G opens tracks into the philosophical wilderness which have nothing to do w/the subject {"whutevuh DAT is"} nor w/ his own carryings-on here. A good book, for reasons G may not have intended a-tall. Abe