pg35 Topic 6 - The reality of objects – The Objective View – How Identity Established? (part 1 of 2)

The objectivity of molecules and biological bodies. 

Earlier we mentioned that all objects are illusory when viewed vertically.  That is, from the physics point of view, all animals and molecules are simply collections of particles.  That they are viewed as animals or molecules is nothing more than an illusion. 

But, it actually is not entirely like that when viewed horizontally, because: 

1. We can always insist to choose the physics point of view, i.e. only elementary particles are recognized in the world, which follow physics laws only.  In this case, no molecules, no animals, etc. are recognized.  Then how can a collection of particles (grouped together as an astronaut) fly to the moon?  As mentioned before, physics laws pose no intention.  Particles move randomly without any intentional will.  The world should be like a dead world on Mercury. 

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pg34 Overlapping of laws at different levels (part 3 of 3)

3. Alternatively, if one is uncomfortable with treating molecules as conceptual structure, he/she may consider a molecule as consisting of a set of exactly prescribed atoms.  But in this case when any atom is dropped off from the molecule, this molecule must be considered dead and cease to exist.  The molecule is reborn when the lost atom is refilled.  Likewise, a dog may be defined as being composed of a set of exactly prescribed cells.  But then according to this definition it must be considered dead when any of its cells are dropped off.  The dog is reborn when the cell is refreshed. 

Obviously, the second choice of the above three is the most close to the way we comprehend the world.  This choice opens large uncertainty in chemistry, larger uncertainty in biology and even larger uncertainty in social activities, e.g. economics, which is in general agreement with what is observed.  But the more important by-product is its commonality with the uncertainty in quantum mechanics.  We see here uncertainty is common to all sciences.  The uncertainty in quantum mechanics is just one special case of the general uncertainties in all sciences.   

Next we’ll turn to the undeniable objectivity of human bodies, molecules, etc.

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pg33 Overlapping of laws at different levels (part 2 of 3)

2. If we wish to recognize a molecule, or a dog, as a special individual object which follows its own chemical laws, or biological laws, then we have to give up treating them as particles following physics laws.  Because chemical laws already contain a high percentage (but not 100%) of physics laws, it would be overlapping each other if both of them are applied simultaneously.  The little percentage not governed by physics laws is due to drop-offs, which cannot be calculated.  If there were no drop-offs, applying chemical laws simultaneously with physics laws should pose no problem, as chemical laws can be translated completely into physics laws.  But when drop-off happens, we can choose only one set of laws at any moment. 

When choosing to recognize molecules and use chemical laws, there are two ways to deal with it.  The first way is to treat molecules as a conceptual structure because its component atoms can be dropped off and replaced by similar atoms from time to time.  This causes an uncertainty which is beyond control of the chemical law, as the law is acting on the conceptual structure rather than on fixed atoms.  This is the same to biological laws when we consider a dog not as a collection of particles or molecules, but as an individual animal.  Obviously, the uncertainty in a chemical law is larger than the uncertainty in the physics of quantum mechanics and the uncertainty in a biological law is even larger than the uncertainty in chemical laws. 

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pg32 Overlapping of laws at different levels (part 1 of 3)

Obviously, there is serious overlapping of laws at different composite levels.  We have to be consistent in the laws we use in any particular discussion.   There are three choices. 

1.  We can consider there are only elementary particles in the world, which are governed only by physics laws.  Under this scheme, no molecules, no biological bodies, no society, etc. are recognized, as they are governed by chemical laws, biological laws, social laws, etc. which are partially covered by physics laws already.  A molecule or a dog should be viewed only as a collection of particles.  All these particles follow the laws of physics only. 

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