Re: Fundamental problems in Physics

[Tim Gwinn <***>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf Of Howard
> Pattee
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:44 AM
> To: ***
> Subject: Re: Fundamental problems in Physics
>
>
> At 10:10 AM 12/14/04 -0500, Judith wrote:
> >I am perfectly willing to believe that you personally know
> physicists who
> >don't subscribe to the machine metaphor as a philosophy of how the
> >universe is, in fact I know a few myself. But if they aren't
> changing the
> >basis on which physics is predicated, then nothing changes.
>
> HP: My only point was that most physicists are no longer reductionists.


TG: To the extent that physics community limits their formalisms to
state-based paradigms, they are effectively mechanists and reductionists,
whether they explicitly consider themselves as such or not.

Regards,
Tim