I guess it boils to whether you believe the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts, whether you believe emergent phenomena exist, right?
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Replying to @o_guest @neurograce and
I haven't read this paper in years but I recall it helped me structure my own thoughts on this issue in a more coherent way: Bersini, H. (2012). Emergent phenomena belong only to biology. Synthese, 185(2), 257-272.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9724-4 …
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Replying to @o_guest @neurograce and
I haven't read this literature in years... I spent the whole of 2008/9 really geeking out on top-down, bottom-up, mid-out analyses (saw Iris use this last term/made me smile), as an UG in CS. Nobody in CS is a dualist but they certainly believe in levels of abstraction.
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Replying to @o_guest @neurograce and
But anyway, my point is that yes, you can probably explain stuff in terms of quantum mechanics for every subject. There could be a theory of economics that explained it using QM... but would that be a useful account? I would argue: no.
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
Thats totally reasonable. But it seems people have somehow turned "it's not useful" into "it's not possible." At least that's what I feel like I'm see occasionally & that makes no sense to me.
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Replying to @neurograce @IrisVanRooij and
I think you need to unpack what they mean by "possible".
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Replying to @neurograce @IrisVanRooij and
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply you you (Grace) just the dialogue needs to probe that. Because "possible" might easily mean "impractical" or even "unfeasible". Somethings are physically possible but practically impossible.
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Replying to @o_guest @neurograce and
I mean for real, would you task a person (or even a team) with doing economics in a quantum mechanical framework?
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Replying to @o_guest @neurograce and
True, but I meant even more in principle limits applying to any idealized computational agent.
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Agreed.
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