Sometimes the laws of physics will mislead you: ‘And there are many cases where viewing a phenomena in terms of the laws of physics can actually take us further away from understanding it. As one example, a computer is based on the operation of logic gates, which have inputs and outputs that can either be “logic high” or “logic low.” These logic gates are based on the operation of transistors, and the operation of these transistors is based on the laws of quantum mechanics. The problem, though, is that even if we are fully aware of everything we can know about the position and momentum of all the particles inside the transistors through the laws of quantum mechanics, we may still completely miss the logical meaning that the circuit signifies. This is the same way in which a detailed analysis of the atoms and molecules inside a neon sign will never tell us that the sign spells “Joe’s Diner.”’ ‘Philosophy of Physics’, Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky, Youtube, 2015

Sometimes the laws of physics will mislead you:
‘And there are many cases where viewing a phenomena in terms of the laws of physics can actually take us further away from understanding it. As one example, a computer is based on the operation of logic gates, which have inputs and outputs that can either be “logic high” or “logic low.” These logic gates are based on the operation of transistors, and the operation of these transistors is based on the laws of quantum mechanics. The problem, though, is that even if we are fully aware of everything we can know about the position and momentum of all the particles inside the transistors through the laws of quantum mechanics, we may still completely miss the logical meaning that the circuit signifies. This is the same way in which a detailed analysis of the atoms and molecules inside a neon sign will never tell us that the sign spells “Joe’s Diner.”’ ‘Philosophy of Physics’, Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky, Youtube, 2015
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