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Interface and turbulence

Interface and turbulence Q J Med 2003; 96:925–926 doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcg149 Commentary M.A. EASTWOOD From the Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK The idea that society is governed by laws as precise in the other, will mix, and there is little or no surface as those of physics has long been a popular tension between the phases. By contrast, other hypothesis for the explanation of social behaviour. physical entities are immiscible. Contributions to such ideas have been made by It can be helpful in dealing with interactions between people or groups to see these reactions Descartes, the followers of the Cartesian system, as being similar to those between two physical Immanuel Kant and Auguste Comte. Science explores the ordered patterns which are a feature relatively immiscible systems, for example oil and of nature, but these ordered patterns need not water. The hypothesis is that behavioural or func- necessarily be confined to biological and physical tional processes have similarities to such a physical phenomenon. systems. In human behaviour there are many instances of A system is a dynamic assemblage of items which are connected, associated or interdependent, and phenomena that simulate the physical. Examples include consistent asymmetry, similar http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png QJM: An International Journal of Medicine Oxford University Press

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© Association of Physicians 2003; all rights reserved.
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10.1093/qjmed/hcg149
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Q J Med 2003; 96:925–926 doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcg149 Commentary M.A. EASTWOOD From the Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK The idea that society is governed by laws as precise in the other, will mix, and there is little or no surface as those of physics has long been a popular tension between the phases. By contrast, other hypothesis for the explanation of social behaviour. physical entities are immiscible. Contributions to such ideas have been made by It can be helpful in dealing with interactions between people or groups to see these reactions Descartes, the followers of the Cartesian system, as being similar to those between two physical Immanuel Kant and Auguste Comte. Science explores the ordered patterns which are a feature relatively immiscible systems, for example oil and of nature, but these ordered patterns need not water. The hypothesis is that behavioural or func- necessarily be confined to biological and physical tional processes have similarities to such a physical phenomenon. systems. In human behaviour there are many instances of A system is a dynamic assemblage of items which are connected, associated or interdependent, and phenomena that simulate the physical. Examples include consistent asymmetry, similar

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Published: Dec 1, 2003

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