Important point… And also, if you try to specify clearly what “mechanical” means, you’ll probably find that the notion disintegrates. The intuition that reality is “mechanical, ultimately” can’t be made to work as one would like.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/976553333606486016 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Don't quite agree but I sense this conversation is way too large for the current context (and I need to sleep now). P.s mechanical is meant as "formal, blind, with no meaning or room for interpretation".
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Well… that replaces one vague term with four vague terms (which, also, mean rather different things, to the extent that they’re specific).
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@everytstudies as saying roughly “some people say that because everything is physics, all understanding should be physics-like; but even though reality is physics-like, useful understandings aren’t necessarily physics-like.” Which I basically agree with!3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes -
Related: when I teach "fun" physics courses for high school students, I like to make the point that there's no meaningful sense in which "physics is the most fundamental science", or "everything is physics". Some of them really hate hearing this!pic.twitter.com/FxZWIfTayj
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I think physics attracts certain types of boys who want to believe they can learn the most fundamental thing, and thereby understand everything (up to boring details) Telling them that every level of reality deserves equal respect and must be studied in its own right offends them
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Yes, I totally had this in high school. Unfortunately I can’t remember quite when or how I grew out of it! I think there were traces as late as early grad school. Although it was more math than physics, throughout.
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