Sentences with phrase «irreducible particles»

This indictment perhaps sounds strange, since if anything seems concrete it is the collection of allegedly irreducible particles of matter out of which nature is composed according to the materialist's philosophy.

In cosmological description, however, we can not pretend that by coming upon some irreducible particle or pattern of particulate activity we will have reached a firm foundation for a philosophy of nature.

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would force us to accept a conception of the physical in which to give a causal account of, say, the motion of a physical particle, it is sometimes necessary to go outside the physical system and appeal to some nonphysical agency and invoke some irreducible psychophysical law.

And it is bizarre that Koch, having recognized that unified intentional consciousness is irreducible to neurological complexity, fails to see that it is also irreducible to minute particles of «information.»

Also there is an irreducible prediction limit arising from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (who knows where the next virtual particle pair will appear?)