Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Physics and Growth

The reduction of Biological phenomena to Modern Physics seems to require following Spinoza by deriving the fundamental Vital principle from Newton's first law, i. e. in which Self-Persistence is an instance of constant Velocity.  However, Spinoza includes the possibility of Growth in that principle, a process analogous to not Velocity, but Acceleration, which is not entailed in the First Law.  Furthermore, if Growth is conceived as constituted by an Evolutionary leap, and, therefore, as Indeterministic, the inadequacy of the Physicist reduction of Biology is compounded.  Ultimately, as has been previously discussed, it is the abstraction of Physics from Praxis that leads it into these Theoretical difficulties.

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