Talk:Vitalism

It seems like "the humours" in the second paragraph should link to
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_four_humours
rather than the page on "Humour"

It seems to me this article is mis-categorized. The thing that distinguishes this topic from science is the lack of the rigorous application of the Scientific Method, and a lack of of peer review by recognized experts in the associated scientific disciplines. I am not sure which other Wiki category this article belongs in, but Science or Biology is not correct, IMHO. SailorfromNH 03:00, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This is an interesting point and one that has been debated in recent critical scholarship on the subject. Of course, Vitalism as a cultural/intellectual movement and preoccupation which is to be distinguished from Vitalism as a pure scientific discourse as is described above. Vitalism in Modern Art, 1900-1950 (Richard Lofthouse) investigates the cultural aspects of this phenomenon.

emergent process = vitalism??

I think this passage is a bit weird:

In terms of the biology of the cell itself, a return to vitalism may be seen in the holistic idea that life is an emergent process which cannot be accurately described simply by understanding any number of chemical processes which occur in the cell.

AFAIK, despite of proposing emergent phenomena, it does not states that it is due to something like a special "vital principle", but it is yet totally mechanistic. Actually, seems to me that the idea of life being an emergent process, rather than "something by itself" is much more mechanist than vitalist. What would be a non-vitalist vision of a life that also is not an emergent process? --Extremophile 19:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WTF?

This has got to be the most over-wikied article I've ever seen on Wikipedia. A link for ATTENTION??? WTF? --dreish~talk 15:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]