Tim O'Connor: Interview with a Dualist
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The Causal Closure Argument
I think causal closure is a thesis that basically states or at any rate entails that strong emergence of the sort I've been talking about is false. That is it's simply a repudiation that there is anything like that. The defense of it is that that's how we arrived at model physics. Yes, yes. It comes back to Keith's point about sort of the direction of history and there's a sort of inductive argument. But anyway, but what do you say to the cause of closure argument? And no, I think not. You know, particle physics is get its confirmation from experimental setups where you isolate very small particle systems in some cases individual particles,. In vacuum chambers where you
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