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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
Subject: Re: Causes and Goals
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In article <1992Mar18.044516.28882@nuscc.nus.sg> smoliar@iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar) writes:
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>I also wonder whether or not the converse might be the
>case:  that laws of physics may be reducible to laws of biology.

I will use an analogy to answer this one:

Can the laws of physics be reduced to the laws of aerodynamics?
Aerodynamics (like biology) deals with big concetrations of SPECIAL
kind of molecules, 
and therefore it confronts with statistical and approximative data & 
laws (something like Boyle's law for ideal gases), due to lack of
'infinite' computational resources for dealingl with the complexity of 
molecule interactions (weather forecasting suffers from the same 
problems).

These statistics examine an ideal model, variations of which exist in the 
real world. M. Zeleny did not speak about a certain amount of viruses but,
I guess, he assumes a concentration of them, big enough to cause 
observable symptoms of a desease. 

Laws based on such context created for special cases seem to be inadequate 
to incorporate 'c'.

The converse is more possible.

Philip Santas

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