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 …
I always figured 'mechanical' was a constraint on the types of differential equations governing a system.
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Which constraint is that? Between Descartes and Newton, “mechanical” meant “no action at a distance.” Since Newton it’s had no coherent meaning afaik? Cc
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