p We have already noted that matter exists through separate material entities finite in space and time, which do not simply exist, but influence 118 each other. By interacting, they cause corresponding changes in each other. These changes are conditioned by both the nature of the material entity in which they occur and by the peculiarities of the body acting upon this entity. The peculiarities of the affecting body leave an impact on these changes and are expressed in them. This is the essence of the property of reflection inherent in all material entities.

p Thus, reflection, as a universal vrovertv ofjnatter, is the ability ot a material entity to reproduce, in the corresponding changes ot its properties ot

p states, the peculiarities ot other bodies thatjtffScl

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p The most common examples of reflection are the deformation of a body under the action of another body; the heating of a conductor under the effect of an electric current passing through it; the expansion of a body’s volume caused by heating; and so on.

p Any material entity affected by other bodies is active rather than passive. It has a reverse effect on those bodies and causes corresponding changes in them, which are a form of the reflection of its own peculiarities. Therefore, any interacting material entity is both reflecting and reflected. It reflects in a certain torm

p the objects affecting it, and is itself reproduced in the corresponding change?, occurring in thnsp objects.

This proves the universality of the property of reflection, which is inherent in all material entities.