Life
The problem is elsewhere.
There is a very important
difference
between the material system painter
and the material system ground.
The painter put the
paint on the spot
he had decided on
in accordance with
his artistic senses and his opinion of
how the boat should look.
This interaction
is fundamentally different
from the interaction
soil - drop.
Anyone who looks
at the picture later
will recognize a small
boat at this point.
The artist
differs greatly from the ground.
He is an organized
system,
• Born from other organized systems,
his parents.
• He has the ability of metabolism and growth
and
• he is able to reproduce, causing the birth
of new
systems like himself.
If we would like
to continue our calculations
about the number of
particle collisions,
we should necessarily include the
parents of the painter too.
And his grandparents
and
great-grandparents
and all previous ancestors
all the way back to Australopithecus and even
further back to the Ammonites and beyond them
to the first unicellular organisms.
All these actions
(interactions, collisions)
that led to the
creation and behaviour of
all these ancestors were necessary steps
in the deterministic sequence that led from
the Big Bang to the painting of the boat.
And of course we
should not forget
the girlfriend of
the mother
of the painter who had organized
that party,
who wouldn’t have
come into the world
if her mother had
not stopped to
admire that hat in the window, where
she was noticed by her future husband.
And we must certainly
mention the essential role which
was played in the whole story by the decision
of the girl who made the hat, to leave the village
when she was abandoned by her fiancé, and go
to the city where, after many failed professional
efforts, she learned later the art of hat making
... etc ... etc.
Now perhaps the complexity
described in the case
of the drop becomes clearer,
when we said that the motion of each particle is not
only defined just by the particles it has collided with,
but by all the other particles each of them has collided
with in the past ... and so forth.
It seems that
these ideas
have got us into deep water.