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Which of you would prefer to think of the process as follows:
The Earth does work on the weights as they fall.
The weights do work on the strings.
The strings do work on the paddle wheel.
The paddle wheel does work on the water molecules.
The average KE of the water molecules increases.
The temperature of the water increases.
Nothing "flows" -- ie energy is not reified in the mind.
Work is done
If you would not prefer the preceeding, would you sympathize
with this explanation?
Some other set of feelings?