Thanks Alexei!
In my seminar on measurement,
http://views.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/courses/measure/sld034.htm (through slide
37) I illustrate the way the van der Waals equation can be cast as a
mapping and interpreted in totally biological terms (genotype, phenotype,
environmental influences, etc.).
Respectfully,
Don Mikulecky
Alexei Sharov wrote:
> Don wrote:
>
> >Rosen reminded us of Rashevsky's observation that the laws of
> >physics are obeyed by all living organisms yet none can be predicted
> >from those laws. He went further to assert that biology was far
> >more "general" than physics.
>
> I fully support this! Time is a kind of "currency" that organisms
> can "spend" on various activities. Space repesents organism's
> freedom to move around. Force represents organism's interaction
> with individual components of the world, etc. I believe we can
> reformulate the whole physics in biological terms.
>
> -Alexei
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