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As we look around us we realize that much of the human environment appears to be made up of discrete clumps of matter, objects with clearly defined, sharp boundaries. It is our experience from daily life (and from precise observations in the laboratory) that the presence of one object may alter the state of other objects in some well-defined ways. We call this process an “interaction”, and consider it one of the fundamental, primary concepts, like space, time and measurement, with which science, and physics in particular, works.
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Roederer, J.G. (2000). Information, Life and Brains. In: Chela-Flores, J., Lemarchand, G.A., Oró, J. (eds) Astrobiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4313-4_14
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