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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There Anything but Physics?
I think there are physics-based explanations for this, but I don't have the complete one to present to the world. This is a feature of the world that we know and that the meticulous should have something to say about. So what the special sciences are doing is they're finding features of the world such that when we conditionalize on them, we get regularities among other features of theworld that interest us. But in some sense, they sit upon on top of the meticulous.
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