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Revision as of 02:21, 31 October 2010
Reductionism is a disbelief that the higher levels of simplified multilevel models are out there in the territory, that concepts constructed by mind in themselves play a role in the behavior of reality. This doesn't contradict the notion that the concepts used in simplified multilevel models refer to the actual clusters of configurations of reality.
Blog posts
- Reductionism by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Explaining vs. Explaining Away
- Angry Atoms
- All Less Wrong posts tagged "reductionism"
See also
- Reductionism (sequence)
- Universal law, Magic
- Mind projection fallacy
- How an algorithm feels
- Free will
- P-zombie
