"she may fall back on superstition"

[wood jim]

http://www.unb.ca/psychology/likely/18th_cent/hume_draft.htm



Thus even gravitational astronomy involves frictional
processes that run down. There is not a single science
that conforms precisely to the strict Newtonian
pattern…The individual is an arrow pointed through
time in one way, and the race is equally directed from
the past into the future. 

This transition from a Newtonian, reversible time to a
Gibbsian irreversible time, has had its philosophical
echoes. Bergsom emphasized the difference between the
reversible time of physics and the irreversible time
of evolutution and biology, in which there is always
something new. 

             --Wiener


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