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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Observational Equivalence
I have a project that's so sweet, is to start from the most basic formulation that I can imagine of the fundamental laws of physics and recover the manifest image from it. And what almost everyone does, physicists and philosophers, to me, is that they cheat. They know what the manifest image looks like. So they're just going to burden their ontology with ideas about laws of physics or space and what have you. But I really want to get those as effective emergent higher level approximate things and figure out why those are nevertheless useful to us. That's very interesting. Is that your way of saying that it's completely nuts? No, no, no,no. The idea that
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