Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Philosophy of chemistry/reply (3)

Wavefunctions tend to zero only at infinite distance, so we're all connected. Interactions between atoms are endless, and not formal, reaching out to interact at far flung distances because there's no such thing as a "bond", only electron density. There is no "you" because you're just part of the Grand Thing.

See, we can play a semantic game with "what is a substance" and where the boundaries between them are, but it would just be a semantic game and nothing more.