[MD] Reading & Comprehension

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On 2 Jun 2010 at 9:58, Krimel wrote:


[Krimel]
Reality ultimately defies description. This is not a some flaky mystical
quasi-philosophical gobbledy gook. It conforms to our everyday experience.
Reality is in flux and whatever we say it at a particular instant is neither
what it was in the previous instant not what it will be in the next. We
create conceptual patterns to help us navigate this flux and those patterns
are concepts. Any description one offers comes in the form of conceptual
patterns. Those patterns are not reality but descriptions of it. Bohr said
it very well when he claimed that physics is not about reality but about
what we can say about reality.

What fun! Krimel says reality defies description then proceeds to describe it. 
Welcome back, Krimel.

Platt