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		melange on Sept 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google vs. Death An arrangement of atoms is a snapshot of a small part of a physical process with arbitrary boundaries drawn around it.

loup-vaillant on Sept 21, 2013 [–]

The boundaries are not arbitrary, to the extent we can factor the configuration space. For instance, we can draw a rather sharp limit between me, and the keyboard I'm typing with.

melange on Sept 21, 2013 | [–]

And what does that particular choice of boundary represent?

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