And yet, the atoms of the chair come together to be a chair, merely by following their own laws. Multiple systems can give rise to the same mind; this does not imply that those systems are doing anything than following their usual laws.
My entire point of using atoms as an example is that I’m trying to explain that higher levels supervene on the lower ones. Explaining chairness on the level of humans and chairs is fine, but my point is that I can describe the universe in terms of atoms and get the same 1/2
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Universe back out at the end. There is nothing on the level of humans and chairs that is not accounted for on the level of atoms. All the “anthropological” concepts exist inside the minds of the resulting beings.
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That’s what I mean by reductionism.
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