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Systems

The fundamentals of interaction are predicated on the action of one object influencing another object. The objects may be same or different. For our purposes, an object is something that exists (i.e., has meaning in the physical world). This is not to say that things that are not physical have no meaning. It rather implies that there are things that exist that are not objects, and that are considered to exist yet differently than as objects. Our mereology distinguishes between objects and processes, where processes are comprised of things not physical. Objects have properties and characteristics, and can be considered either a fundamental constituent (at subatomic dimensions) or an aggregation of sorts of other objects (parts). ...

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