Re: machine definition attached...sorry!

Jixuan Hu (jixuanhu@GWIS2.CIRC.GWU.EDU)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:51:23 -0500

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I think it's too complicated. A machine is a set of "natural laws" mapped
into physical "stuff," or materialized natural laws. The simplest machine
might be the tools used by the stoneman.

Then the question is, what will be the definition of natural laws...

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