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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There Any Disagreement Between Reductionism and Emergency?

I've always thought that the reductionism versus emergence debate was kind of boring. But i wouldn't want to conflate it with the more kind of linguistic point about talking about things in biological terms first, physical terms. There are just some advantages that one language has over talking about the same phenomenon as another. And we need to recognize our own role in engaging in that work of translatWell, you're suggesting, or you're sort of hinting at a whole bunch of discussions people have had about reductionism and emergence and things like that. Do do I see any actual disagreement that we should, we should care about here? Well, i i try to take up early on in the

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