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AMA | May 2023

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

CHAPTER

Effective Field Theories: A Framework for Reductionism

effective field theory is a framework, for those of you who don't know, the idea of effective field theory. So I think that understanding how effective field theories work might help you be a reductionist, but I don't know what it means to say that it's a framework for reductionism. Sorry about that. Usually by the way, usually, you know, for these kinds of questions, sometimes people say, I've always found it helpful to actually find someone saying that because it's too easy to paraphrase or oversimplify when you say this.

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