Re: An idea to resolve the 1st Person/3rd person division mystery - Coarse graining is the answer!?

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:31:09 +1000

On 05/05/07, Russell Standish <lists.domain.name.hidden> wrote:

Similarly, chimpanzees are names given to a certain collection of
> chemicals that happens to behave in a particular way. The rules of
> chimpanzee behaviour are fully emergent from the rules of chemistry.
>

In your book you say that "reductionism has gone too far" and then talk
about weak and strong emergence. Can you explain the relationship between
reductionism and emergence?

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Stathis Papaioannou
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