John,
Re the physical law: the criteria of physical reality or material existence
is having a causal effect (or a feedback effect) upon physical things,
directly or indirectly. Thus we conclude on the
materiality of physical forces, radiations, magnetic/electric fields,
ect. What really exists as effecting on visible matter or radiation, but
can't be detected directly, is very elusive, like dark matter and dark energy,
today constituting 95% of the universe, and needing new/modified
physical/gravitational laws.
Some comments below.
Azamat
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:25
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] intangibles
(was RE: Why most classifications are fuzzy)
Azamat,
That is true. But I wanted to emphasize the continuity.
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Still it's critical to draw a distinction between the intellectual
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processes of predictions or anticipations or forecast and the physical
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interactions by stimulus-response coordination mechanisms.
But the same physical laws are involved.
AA: I'd like to agree, but hardly the mental world of intelligent
things is liable to the physical laws. It seems the mental laws are to be
discovered.
Long term predictions require deeper analysis and more complex reasoning
than short term predictions. But those are different points on a
continuum.
AA: Could you specify the meanings of "continuum"? If it's about
how the mental entities (abstract things, scientific theories) exert a causal
effect upon the physical things, via thought processes and human actions.
John
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