Understanding Regularities 3: Groping Toward a Definition
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There are two ways of understanding the physical world. The first is a view from “nowhere,” a God’s eye view of the world. Physics, for the most part, has taken this line of understanding. However, it is also possible to describe the physical world from a particular perspective, that of an ant or an elephant. Each of these perspectives is embedded in a “somewhere.” I am going to give somewheres a fancier name; let us call every somewhere a
Understanding Regularities 3: Groping Toward a Definition
Understanding Regularities 3: Groping Toward…
Understanding Regularities 3: Groping Toward a Definition
There are two ways of understanding the physical world. The first is a view from “nowhere,” a God’s eye view of the world. Physics, for the most part, has taken this line of understanding. However, it is also possible to describe the physical world from a particular perspective, that of an ant or an elephant. Each of these perspectives is embedded in a “somewhere.” I am going to give somewheres a fancier name; let us call every somewhere a