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loup-vaillant
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An arrangement of atoms is a snapshot of a physical process. I don't see the contradiction.
melange
on Sept 20, 2013
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An arrangement of atoms is a snapshot of a small
part
of a physical process with arbitrary boundaries drawn around it.
loup-vaillant
on Sept 21, 2013
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The boundaries are not arbitrary, to the extent we can factor the configuration space. For instance, we can draw a rather sharp limit between me, and the keyboard I'm typing with.
melange
on Sept 21, 2013
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And what does that particular choice of boundary represent?
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