What is the most misunderstood and abused term/concept in your field?
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Not sure I agree with that definition. There are plenty of examples of emergent or dynamic mechanisms. Isn't a mechanism just something that does causal work?
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You can use "mechanism" that way if you want, but I think it's too vague--"causal work" is extremely capacious.
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I think it is important to consider *in what space* is X localized. It may be naive to expect musical sounds to map to motions of single atoms. But sounds may still be localized in the frequency domain, or be clustered in some even less obvious mapping.
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Similarly, what some piece of software does, does not in any trivial sense map to individual transistors in the computer's CPU. But it does not preclude a mechanistic explanation, in some higher level conceptual space.
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Decomposition and localisation of function work fine for complex systems (such as organisms) as long as you don't require them to be unique.
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Why, though?
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