Admittedly, I come to this through physics and philosophy, with some behavioral economics/public policy/economics excursions, so the applications of these thoughts are not much more beyond metaphor, but analogically, there is nothing incoherent about social scientific laws per se
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I have a selfish interest in identifying and adopting the most conservative view of what’s real because my project is to maximize the canvas for structured solipsism
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What does “real” mean?
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The Schrodinger equation is linear in time. Let’s not be into interpretations of QM, but causation doesn’t fail, just notions of locality (according to Bell’s Inequalities). And I follow Smolin on time now more than Barbour or Huw Price (though I used be with the latter two).
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And to lay my cards, I’m a Russelian monist with protopanpsychist leanings and a strong affinity for Whitheadean process metaphysics and a confidence that something like discretized elemental networks (a la LQG with diffeomorohism invariance) evolving in time is the best physics.
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