On Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 4:59:35 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Biology is certainly different from physics, but that does not mean that > terrestrial biology is not conceptually reducible to physics. > > Like with mechanism, physics remains different from arithmetic and > computer science, but is conceptually reducible to or explained by, > arithmetic. > > It is important to distinguish the ontology (what we assume at the start, > and which is eventually shown *necessary* to assume), and the > phenomenologies derived in the ontology, which does not introduce any new > assumptions (only definitions). > > Bruno > > > Does "conceptually reducible" mean anything? It means nothing to me.
Start with the Standard Model in Lagrangian language: https://www.sciencealert.com/images/Screen_Shot_2016-08-03_at_3.20.12_pm.png Can one compile or translate the theories of biology into this? If so, it could be made explicit. @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/f78cadda-1afc-4c42-bde7-f75697f6c668%40googlegroups.com.
