#318 - Physics & Philosophy
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
The Supervenience Claim for Micro Physics
There was a time when some of the so-called British emergentists, the hallmark of emergence was a phenomenon that could not be explained on the basis of micro physics. But my view is that the supervenience claim as far as we know is true for what we call the ontology. That is there's a certain sense in which my computer is nothing but a collection of atoms put together in a certain configuration. And everything it does, we think in principle, could be accounted for by just studying how atoms interact and how electrons interact.
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