Abstraction Barrier

AUTHOR: <lngnmn2@yahoo.com> First of all, abstraction barriers are very real (not merely abstract notions) and they are liteterally everywhere (at all levels, from molecular to social). The “most real” abstraction barrier is how what we call “atoms” are “used” by molecular (cell) biology. For cells atoms are is how ancient people used to conceptualize them - an atom is indivisible, indestructive, eternal, “just is”. More precisely, cell biology “is not concerned” with what atoms “really are” and use them as an abstraction, provided that there is no one to “see this”, aside from an “higher level” intelligent observer....