either indeterminism or holistic nonseparability. The author sees these as having important theological implications: indeterminism is important for theories of divine action on particular occasions, while holism is an anti- reductionist

due to the subjective and holistic character of mental phenomena; in fact, it is not yet clear what would count as an adequate model for explaining the mental in terms of brain processes. The sense of “laws of nature” that one

has given way to a more holistic approach to physical systems. See the EPR Paradox . Most basic of all, the classical assumptions of continuity and divisibility (that between any two points there is an infinite number of intermediate

in the Hebrew scriptures is holistic and nonreductive physicalist . Jewish scholar Neil Gillman writes: Biblical anthropology knows nothing of this dualistic picture of a person which claims that a human being is a composite of two

supports a holistic and nonreductive physicalist account of the person. However, some argue that the New Testament presupposes dualism , since there are a few passages appearing to support a doctrine of "the intermediate

system displays a holistic character entirely unlike classical composite systems (what can be called ‘whole-part causality’ as distinct from ‘whole-part constraints’): once interacting, now vastly separated,