I would say that physics is diff from inorganic chemistry and biological science, in the sense that how academics observe and measure phenomena. Its a Venn diagram in which the circles or ovals align one on top of the other, maybe off-center here and there, but the same thing.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jul 22, 2019 9:31 am Subject: Re: Historical contingency and the futility of reductionism On 22 Jul 2019, at 11:44, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: Why chemistry (and biology) is not physics https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/historical-contingency-and-the-futility-of-reductionism-why-chemistry-and-biology-is-not-physics/ Partly why I'm a materialist, not a physicalist. But this has implications for arithmetical reality (?). If Chemistry is not physics, it would mean that ours substitution level would be in between QM and chemistry (something slightly more complex to be sure, but it is a reasonable approximation). Now, I am not convinced by the paper above that chemistry is not reducible to quantum mechanics, especially that chemistry count the most successful application of quantum mechanics. I have no definite ideas on all this. The paper might confuse []p and []p & p, like 99,9998% of materialist thinkers here. Bruno @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ff0ad61c-1be0-4932-8e16-ccce4b709ff7%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/5F43B183-2405-42A2-B979-BCA8B737DF03%40ulb.ac.be. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1752692774.5124225.1563827609817%40mail.yahoo.com.
