Classical Physics

Newton's three laws and me

I like to create a metaphor for them in relationship to myself in my daily life.

1. If I'm sleeping I will stay that way until something makes me get up.
    ie. This could be because I have a class or I have to study

2. When I'm working on studying I will keep on studying until an outside force affects me.
     ie. If hunger pushes me to go and get sushi

3. By working towards improving my grades I am lowering my sanity.
     ie. Studying herbs for too long and I loose contact with the world

     Descartes spoke out of turn. While the idea of rationalizing and mentally dissecting everything to it's most basic aspect does seem appealing for the the purposes of understanding something if no attempt at reintegration of is made then we have separated the thing which we seek to understand from the rest of reality. Mental disintegration of any object does not make it any better. What is accomplished though, is a simplification for the benefit of the human mind. No one thing in reality was necessarily ever decide to exist separate from anything else. For example, take a house in it's entirety and begin ripping it apart in order to understand every aspect of it. Once you are done, can you put the house back together again? No, you can only rebuild it from what you remember and it will never be the same. Without the balance between holistic understanding of reality and a compartmentalized viewpoint we will never grasp the totality.