how fucked up would nature be if the bulk (emergent/macroscopic) properties of matter weren’t related to the properties of their microscopic constituents
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if the two weren’t related at all I can’t imagine anything but chaos, and it also seems almost inconceivable that there could be no relation
not that there's *no* relation, i think the relevant counterfactual is what if there's *something* that's not uniquely determined
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i think uniqueness of a macroscopic determination of a microscopic theory is the relevant vocabulary to be used here
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this gets cashed out in two ways, one of which is thought to be more problematic: underdetermination and a failure of determinism. In the former case a wide variety of underlying micro configurations can realize the same macroscopic configuration. We see this all the time
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