Reductionism, emergence, and levels of abstractions

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2007-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/0707.4198v1

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This piece is to be submitted to CACM as a Viewpoint article. It is only 1200 word because that's the word limit on such piece

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Can there be independent higher level laws of nature if everything is
reducible to the fundamental laws of physics? The computer science notion of
level of abstraction explains why there can -- illustrating how computational
thinking can solve one of philosophy's most vexing problems.

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