Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Pelican Books)

by Graham Harman

First False Assumption: everything that exists must be physical.

The author's understanding and view of physics is very limited. He could have said that relationships are not physical. Or the entities (concepts, ideas) that emerge from physical things such as neurons are not material, it might have been a stronger argument. In other words, the author didn't have to go to the highly controversial subject of super naturalism for his arguments, which ended up muddying his argument.

not be able to tell us anything about Sherlock Holmes, and this alone suffices to disqualify it as a ‘theory of everything’.

But it will be able to.this argument of the author is superficial. Fictions, imaginations are all part of emergent phenomena that is based on real physical activities. I do understand what he is trying to say, but he continues to choose shallow and meaningless arguments.