Re: True or false: Physics is all about the behavior of ...

From: beda pietanza (beda-pietanza_at_libero.it)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:40:14 GMT

<reany@asu.edu> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>True or false: Physics is all about the behavior of inanimate physical
>systems over time.

Each of us would write a different version of what physics is about
(more or less adequate) but no one is entitle to decide for all.

>If true, then

>1) there is some biology which is not physics

??????

>2) metaphysical essences are irrelevant

The ones who claim metaphysical irrelevance are the ones, unwary, full
entangled with it

>3) behavior is contained in equations, not thing-like models

In the ancient times there were physics but no math

>4) physical systems are defined conventionally and contain at least
>some visible matter whose behavior is at issue.

This is what thorns you: physical systems are what they are and are under
observation: through observations we cumulate a increasing knowledge of the
physical system that can lead to a good enough knowledge sufficient to
interact with the system with some efficiency:
the relevance of this is that the physicality of ourselves and the
physicality of the system under observation are the dominants in the
interactive process; our mind is just a mean of connection and elaboration.

best regards

beda pietanza

>Patrick

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