Thank you for pointing out that the term “impulse” in physics has a very different meaning than in regular speech. A better example is the physicist’s use of the term “cold”, which intersects the layman’s intuition but is both more precise and general. To a layman, cold is just whatever causes that sensation you get when you touch ice. To a physicist, cold must ultimately be defined using ideas like entropy because (among other reasons) you can’t touch a Bose–Einstein condensate with your fingertips. The technical definition was arrived at after deep investigation into the fundamental nature of temperature.
I believe that my definition does overlap with the conventional kind in conventional circumstances, if you really pay attention to what’s going on in your brain, including disambiguating things like pain vs course suffering, desire vs motivation, etc. When you get to very low levels of mental anguish, precise definitions are necessary, because for unconventional circumstances the conventional intuition breaks.
Thank you for pointing out that the term “impulse” in physics has a very different meaning than in regular speech. A better example is the physicist’s use of the term “cold”, which intersects the layman’s intuition but is both more precise and general. To a layman, cold is just whatever causes that sensation you get when you touch ice. To a physicist, cold must ultimately be defined using ideas like entropy because (among other reasons) you can’t touch a Bose–Einstein condensate with your fingertips. The technical definition was arrived at after deep investigation into the fundamental nature of temperature.
I believe that my definition does overlap with the conventional kind in conventional circumstances, if you really pay attention to what’s going on in your brain, including disambiguating things like pain vs course suffering, desire vs motivation, etc. When you get to very low levels of mental anguish, precise definitions are necessary, because for unconventional circumstances the conventional intuition breaks.