How Do You Carve Reality Into Large, Microscopic Objects?

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Anonymous ays there are good ways to carve reality into objects like jupiter and air force one. Are there physics ways to think about how i choose a good ontology? Well, this is a great question, and a crutially important question writing. This is basically the question of emergence. How do you carve things that are made of atoms or quantum fields into large, microscopic objects in useful way s?

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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