Completely top–down hierarchical structure in quantum mechanicshttp://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/10/19/1807554115 …
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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Yes. That would be my form of reductionism. (Although I would say “supervenes on the wave function” rather than “can be derived from QM,” since in practice we’re never going to derive psychology etc. from QM.)
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1/3 OK. This issue is the bigger one of supervenience physicalism vs naturalistic emergentism (both forms of scientific naturalism), not so much mereological reductionism vs mereological emergence. The PNAS article speaks mostly to the latter.
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