Wait, isn’t that just dualism with hand-waving about complexity?
The analogy of water and H2O is a good one: the property of wetness IS measurable in surface tension, viscosity, and adhesion to various surfaces. And those are absolutely caused by interactions at the level of molecules (or lower down, but definitely physics). “Wetness” is not easily CALCULABLE from first principles, but that’s a failing of us as modelers and our computational power, not a distinct category of properties.
Wait, isn’t that just dualism with hand-waving about complexity?
The analogy of water and H2O is a good one: the property of wetness IS measurable in surface tension, viscosity, and adhesion to various surfaces. And those are absolutely caused by interactions at the level of molecules (or lower down, but definitely physics). “Wetness” is not easily CALCULABLE from first principles, but that’s a failing of us as modelers and our computational power, not a distinct category of properties.