Completely top–down hierarchical structure in quantum mechanicshttp://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/19/1807554115 …
Still, this appears to violate mereological reductionism, which is one way of defining strong emergence. "Interesting," however, is an epistemic notion... ;)
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Right. But unless I’m missing something (very possible), mereological reductionism has been known to be violated ever since we knew about entanglement. It’s not the kind of reductionism a good quantum mechanic should be looking for.
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So that means (if I'm not missing something, which is also very possible) that the kind of reductionism you favor is compatible with strong emergence (at least as many philosophers have understood it).
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