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%FEARFUL INTEGRATIVE REFLEXIVE DESCRIPTION THEORY+990728
%LAWS ASTRONOMY PHYSICS CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY SOCIAL 990728
The laws of physics and the laws passed by human
legislatures are not alike. Consider the two kinds of
laws in turn:
The laws of physics are quantitative/objective
descriptions of how elementary objects move through
time/space thereby generating the multitude of diverse
physical processes which physicists study, measure and
describe in generalizations called theories; e.g.,
1. Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion;
2. Newton's theories of Gravitation, Forces, and
Acceleration;
3. Einstein's Theories of Special Relativity,
General Relativity, and Brownian Motion;
4. Maxwell's Equations of Electrodynamics and
Thermodynamics;
5. Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics;
6. Dirac's Equations of Quantum Mechanics, etc.
None of these "laws", "theories", or "equations"
cause anything to happen or serve as the basis for
punishing anything which violates the "laws", "theories",
or "equations". These are merely descriptive statements
about how objective/non-reflexive elementary things behave
without exception.
Legislated Laws are different. Legislated Laws are
expressions of collective human desires regarding how
communities reflexive members to behave. Legislated Laws
are intended to lead/cause reflexive people to reflect
upon alternative modes of behavior --- and to conform to
the patterns indicated in the legislated Laws. Legislated
Laws are descriptions of how a community wants its members
to behave; not descriptions of how members of a community
behave without exception.
Additional differences flow from the above described
difference. Human reflections upon the descriptions of
the laws of physics do not change the ways in which
elementary objective things behave. Human reflections
upon the descriptions of the laws of physics often have
led, and may yet lead, to the discovery of patterns in
the behaviors of elementary objective things --- which are
not accurately described in the articulated laws of
physics. Such discoveries regularly lead to modifications
in the human articulations of the descriptive laws of
physics --- while the elementary objects continue to
behave as before. The articulations of the physics laws
are changed by humans so that the reformulated
articulations conform more accurately to how elementary
objects have behaved, and continue to behave. The changes
are in the human articulations; not in the behaviors of
elementary objects. Changes in human articulations of
the laws of physics flow from changes in human perceptions
of how elementary objects behave; not from changes in the
ways in which elementary objects do behave.
Human reflections upon formal legislated laws and
patterns of human behaviors may lead to changes in
legislated laws, changes in human behaviors, and changes
in informal human expectations regarding human behaviors.
Changes in human articulations of legislated human laws
interact in reflexive ways back and forth with patterns of
informal human expectations, behaviors, reactions, and
meditations. Such changes ARE REFLEXIVE through and
through --- in ways which changes pertaining to the laws
of physics ARE NOT REFLEXIVE.
Physicists may prudently fear the consequences of
patterns of elementary objects behaviors (patterns
described by the laws of physics) --- but such prudent
fears are of a significantly different kind than the
political fears of members of opposition parties which are
engaged in conflicts over how legislated laws should be
changed in light of political theories about: human
economics, human behaviors, criminal behaviors, human
sexual behaviors, human religious understandings, etc.
We cannot have prudent understandings of various
kinds of laws if we are unaware of and cannot articulate
clear understandings regarding how various kinds of laws
are qualitatively and humanly different from each other.
We cannot change the regular ways in which elementary
objects relate to each other --- as described by the laws
of physics. We can reformulate our descriptions of how
such elementary objects do behave --- so as to have more
accurate descriptions in terms of which to formulate
engineering/technical solutions to technical problems
which confront us.
We can change the articulations of legislated laws
which express how our communities want their members to
behave in regular ways. We are very unlikely to succeed
in thereby promting all members of the communities to
regularly behave in ways which correspond to the
prescriptions, proscriptions, scriptures and commandments
which we honor in words --- even thought not always in
deeds. Our reflections/meditations hopefully will and
are likely to lead to changes in how members of our
communities behave; even though perfect conformity is
unlikely to be desirable --- and unlikely to be attained.
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