How Quantum is Life?

Our only way to get an understanding of the nature, structure, and functioning of our universe is by our observations of it in one form or another. Our senses provide the only inputs of information from the world that we live. As such, our minds are designed to accept and process those inputs and extrapolate useful information from them. Things that we observe come in various quantities, sizes, shapes, and masses, etc., and are connected to each other by various relationships, so mathematics is built into the world. The biggest problem that we have at present is that we are trying to understand things that are too small or for some other reason can’t presently be observed directly and some that we can’t even observe indirectly. There are 2 approaches that can give us an understanding of these things. First we can look at those things that we can observe and try to find clues about the nature of that which we are trying to understand from those observations and from similarities between the known structure and functioning of the things we are trying to understand and the structure and functioning of larger scale things that we can observe because often the same patterns exist in many different things on different size and other scales. The other approach is to look for understanding by the use of mathematical models by starting with known relationships and quantities, etc. and attempting to extrapolate the thing’s structure and functioning from known quantities. Currently the math approach has generally come to be looked at as the best approach. This paper attempts to show that both approaches are necessary to obtain a full understanding of our world.
Paul N Butler
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