Where and how does it happen ?

TL;DR

This paper questions the traditional view that thinking occurs in separate, disconnected realms from physical phenomena, exploring potential conflicts with classical and modern physics principles.

Contribution

It challenges the assumption of a strict separation between thinking and physical phenomena, proposing a reevaluation of their interconnectedness in scientific understanding.

Findings

Highlights conflicts with Newtonian, Einsteinian, and Quantum mechanics assumptions

Suggests reconsidering the independence of thinking realms from physical phenomena

Encourages exploring the interconnectedness of thought and reality

Abstract

It has for ages been a rather constant feature of thinking in science to take it for granted that the respective thinking happens in realms which are totally outside and independent of all the other phenomena that constitute the objects of such thinking. The imposition of this divide on two levels may conflict with basic assumptions of Newtonian and Einsteinian mechanics, as well as with those in Quantum Mechanics. It also raises the question whether the realms in which thinking happens have no any other connection with the realms science deals with, except to host and allow scientific thinking.