Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Capra , Fritjof (2004-01-06), The hidden connections, Anchor, Retrieved on 2012-01-30Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: philosophy Memes
30 JAN 2012
The Illusion of Taste
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resides neither in the C, nor in the O, nor in the H; it resides in the pattern that emerges from their interaction. It is an emergent property. Moreover, strictly speaking, is not a property of the chemical bonds. It is a sensory experience that arises when the sugar molecules interact with the chemistry of our taste buds, which in turns causes a set...When we taste sweetness, our tongues are not responding to the C, O, or H, but to the molecule.