A classical example is the laws of thermodynamics [...] I'm not sure what is argument is here. The laws of thermodynamics are scientific laws because we can t

A classical example is the laws of thermodynamics [...] I'm not sure what is argument is here. The laws of thermodynamics are scientific laws because we can test them and repeat them in a laboratory. This is untrue of Kurzweil's LOAR as far as I understand the requirements to deem something a scientific law [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law