On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Andrei Khrennikov wrote: > If we follow the line of Arne of realism/antirealism, then what should > we say about LAWS OF NATURE? I think that we would come to the > conclusion that there is no such laws at all. Such a conclusion is not > astonishing in the light of modern views to QM. Since QM (by the > conventional Copenhagen interpretation) declared the death of > determinism (and not because our impossibility to find such > deterministic dynamics, but because quantum randomness is irredusible), > it seems that at the quantum level we are not able to consider physical > laws. We are able only to find some statistical correlations. > > I think that this is totally wrong position. As Newton was, I am also > surprised by harmony and consistence in Nature. It could not be just a > product of our social agreement. Well, finally Newton came to the idea > of God who was responsible for this harmony.
Dear Andrei: Like Walter Elsasser, I believe there are no laws for biology in the same sense as the laws of physics. Yes, I agree there is regularity and order in the biological world. Whence the order? Processes, not law. For further details, please see: <http://www.cbl.umces.edu/~ulan/ISEPP.DOC> The best, Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert E. Ulanowicz | Tel: (410) 326-7266 Chesapeake Biological Laboratory | FAX: (410) 326-7378 P.O. Box 38 | Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1 Williams Street | Web <http://www.cbl.umces.edu/~ulan> Solomons, MD 20688-0038 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis
