Western Questions Eastern Answers: A Collection of Short Essays - Volume 1 by Ashish Dalela

Author:Ashish Dalela [Dalela, Ashish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01M25DKYP
Published: 2021-07-03T11:36:36+00:00

The Matter Distribution Problem

All reductionist theories of nature suffer from the problem that the theory describes matter in the aggregate but the exact manner in which the aggregate properties are distributed in nature cannot be predicted. For instance, if you were given a certain amount of paper and ink, there are infinite different ways in which you could use the ink and paper to produce different kinds of books. From a physical perspective, all these books conserve the total physical properties, but they are clearly not identical. The differences between these books is empirical but it cannot be theoretically explained in a reductionist theory. Such a theory, therefore, becomes incomplete: it cannot explain all the observations.

The matter distribution problem is symptomatic of meanings: different books may have the same mass, but they denote different ideas. This makes all classical physical theories also indeterministic because the theory’s predictions are compatible with many possible matter distributions and do not predict which of these distributions is real.

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