Nature of Energy

[I_am_not_mafia]

Energy being the most powerful concept?? No, I can tell you that the field concept is by far more powerful

I have no qualifications in physics but I do understand how useful concepts can be and how they come in and out of fashion in science.

Maybe it's irrelevant to this conversation, I don't know, but in my own field of Artificial Intelligence, everything is understood in terms of information. While this is a useful concept, I personally find the concept of free-energy (i.e. energy that can do work) more useful. Very few people think in these terms. But that's because I research entirely self organising systems whereas most people try to create systems that can be trained.

And before the fashion of applying information theory to life, neuroscientists were trying to understand the brain as if it was a computer. They understood intelligence as a logical process. I remember reading the most painful paper once where the authors described emotions as functioning like interrupts in a computer. It wasn't so long ago that it was common to think of symbols actually existing in the brain.

Maybe this is not the same as to what you're referring to, but this doesn't necessarily mean that one concept is wrong and the other is correct, merely that one is more useful in a certain context than the other.