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Addendum to a note regarding the success of biological and medical science
1Department of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. kanderso@rush.edu
Abstract:
Much like mathematics, the biological and medical sciences seem unreasonably successful, considering many potential obstacles to this outcome. A recent suggestion that data should be viewed as 'quantized', that each 'elementary system' contains a single 'bit' of information (A. Zeilinger, A foundational principle for quantum mechanics, Foundations of Physics 29 (1999) 631), would seem ultimately to underlie the coherent relationships between the perceived physical universe and mental constructs within and among mathematics, logic, the 'hard' sciences and those 'softer' sciences directly based on biochemical and physiologic mechanisms (A. Zeilinger, A foundational principle for quantum mechanics, Foundations of Physics 29 (1999) 631; H. C. Von Baeyer, In the beginning was the bit, New Scientist, 17 (2000) 26-30).
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