Completely top–down hierarchical structure in quantum mechanicshttp://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/19/1807554115 …
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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I don’t think so. I just think the right notion of “the lowest level” is “the wave function,” not “information about each part”. We can (and do!) put the wave function on a computer and simulate anything we want.
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So, you think everything can in principle be derived from QM? (I strongly doubt it, but in any case that strikes me as a different issue.)
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