
Ep 8 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5, Part 1
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Why Is the Copper Atom There?
If you try and explain what people do, if you attempt to explain it in terms of deterministic laws, then you ignore the high level causative structure that exists in the universe. And one of the most parsimonious ways to explain why people choose to do one thing or the other is free will. You're missing the difference between explanation and prediction. I come so i'm skipping a bit. David goes through arguments against reduction ism and then arguments against its mere image, called holism.
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