tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post117126692917009558..comments2024-01-01T08:18:36.278-05:00Comments on Real Physics: Reductionism & The Origin of Non-SpeciesLawrence Gagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242322119143922513noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-41658521724337160142009-03-24T15:02:00.000-04:002009-03-24T15:02:00.000-04:00I love your first note. Clouds of matter... "Bows ...I love your first note. Clouds of matter... "Bows and flows of angel hair, and ice-cream castles in the air, and feather-canyons everywhere, I've looked at individuals that way..." (from <I>Both Sides Now</I>, sung by Judy Collins umpteen years ago.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10944560.post-78017107646545247692009-02-12T11:39:00.000-05:002009-02-12T11:39:00.000-05:00Keep it up, dude. You post far less often than yo...Keep it up, dude. You post far less often than you should. <BR/>+ + +<BR/><BR/>I sometimes run into incomprehension when I try to tell folks that gravity has no objective existence. Galileo and the scientists defined as objective those qualities that had extension, weight, location, etc. Things like sound, taste, etc. were secondary, or "subjective" qualities because they resided in the subject rather than the object. <BR/><BR/>So how wide or deep is gravity? What does it weigh? Where is it located? <BR/><BR/>Given this, what has objective existence is the falling body, and gravity is the story we tell ourselves to make sense out of the falling bodies. It is in a sense, something "emergent" from the objective reality of material particles, just as space and time emerge from the existence of matter. <BR/><BR/>I see species in the same fashion, and it doesn't really matter if the category has a fuzzy boundary. (The existence of dawn and dusk does not invalidate the distinction between night and day.) In a sense, the origin of species is in the human mind, because it does deal with a higher level than that of the particular existants. Galileo and the others never went so far as to say that subjective qualities were not =real.=TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.com