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Dualism in Reality
- Reality has two parts: physical things and abstractions.
- Abstractions, like ideas, can cause physical changes, exemplified by Gaudi's cathedral.
Criteria for Existence
- Existence is determined by inclusion in our best explanations, not sensory perception.
- Electrons exist because our explanations of matter require them, unlike ghosts, which lack explanatory power.
Emergence
- Emergent phenomena are higher-level simplicities arising from complex interactions.
- These phenomena obey their own laws, which don't contradict but emerge from physics.