He asked if LIFE could be reduced to pure physics.
I would like to ask,
``Does a physical description provide an exhaustive description of
reality?''
If we have described all we can describe of the atoms, physical causal
relations and processes in a person's body and mind, and related all
the persons sensations, thoughts, experiences with other people,
knowledge of God, experience of the holy spirit in terms of atoms
acting in a particular configuration within the person's brai, is that
all there is? Or is that even relevent to who a person is? I tend to
think not.
Novelist Walker Percy said of B.F.Skinner something close to, "He
understood everything about man except what it was to be human." I
suspect an exhaustive physical description of life, particularly human
life, might be subject to the same statement.
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