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Michael Strevens on explanation and modern scientific knowledge

Thing in itself

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Is There a Principle Reason to Reject Reduction?

The kind of causal complexity that would have to be there to make life happen, but which you might have thought isn't there. turned out in fact to be there in the jelly after all. We still have only 1% of the story but we can kind of see the kinds of stories that we expect are there with understanding of how genes work.

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