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Ask Me Anything | April 2023
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Problem With Downward Causation
Theories of downward causation depend on what you're taking the lower microscopic level to be. If it's just atoms and molecules, there's no room for such a thing as "downward causation," he says. That doesn't mean it's not helpful to we human beings in some way, though, he adds.
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