mark on Nostr: the physical and the ephemeral—body and soul—are deeply interwoven, to the point ...

the physical and the ephemeral—body and soul—are deeply interwoven, to the point that even making the distinction amounts to a kind of absurdity

Aristotle called this idea 'hylomorphism' and was mainly referring to the duality of physical matter and immaterial form. (this term was eventually picked up and used in computer science to talk about recursive functions)

Einstein later followed the logic of his relativity theory to discover that physical matter and immaterial energy were literally two aspects of the same phenomenon: E=mc^2 Hylomorphism had passed the rigor of modern physics.

Then decades later Werner Heisenberg had this to say regarding the duplex world of quantum mechanics, from his 1958 book 'Physics & Philosophy':

"In the experiments about atomic events we have to do with things and facts, with phenomena that are just as real as any phenomena in daily life. But atoms and the elementary particles themselves are not as real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts...The probability wave [...] mean[s] tendency for something. It's a quantitative version of the old concept of potentia from Aristotle's philosophy. It introduces something standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality."