Hi Telmo Menezes 

Good point. The answer is the same source that the
universe came from.


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From: Telmo Menezes 
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Time: 2013-01-20, 10:37:56
Subject: Re: Does energy obey the laws of materialism ?


Hi Roger,


I would say the opposite - energy not being conserved would pose a harder 
challenge to materialism, because then you'd have to ask where it comes from 
and where it goes.



On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:

Does energy obey the laws of materialism ?
?
Energy?resents us with an argument against materialism,
(or at least materialism as I understand it) since?s conserved, 
regardess of form or ?hysical location. Thus the electrical energy created 
in a generating station at one location can be transported down
a copper wire to a house miles away. It will seem to lose some
value due to the heating by resistance in the wire, but
that is merely a conversion of electrical to heat energy and 
the total is maintained. But all of this occurs over a range
of locations, not in a single body of material.
?
Similarly in a pendulum clock, there is a continual conversion of 
energy from potential energy to kinetic energy and back
again, but some nonphysical marker outside of spacetime keeps the 
total constant.
?
Etc.
?
I would say that the nonphysical marker outside of the physical
world is mental energy,?r the idea of energy,?nd it is this (a 
nonphysical idea rather than a physical quantity)?hat is actually
maintained. Leibniz in his Idealism gives a similar?ccount?o the 
transfer of "momentum" between colliding bodies, maintaining,
quite reasonably,?hat momentum is an idea rather than a thing.?
In other words, there is no such physical thing as momentum, only
the idea of momentum. 
?
?
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? 
non-material
Cass




From: Dan Ghiocel <d...@ghiocel.com>
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Sent: Saturday, 19 January 2013 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Mind and Brain] News: Physicists Find Evidence That 
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? 
Are you saying that energy is non physical?
Dan G
On 1/18/2013 5:06 PM, Cass Silva wrote:

? 
Either way it is still non physical - it is energy and remains energy.
Cass
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