Sunday, June 9, 2013

To reject good explanations is to imprison oneself

 

“There is no inconsistency in having multiple explanations of the same phenomenon, at different levels of emergence. Regarding microphysical explanations as more fundamental than emergent ones is arbitrary and fallacious. … The world may or may not be as we wish it to be, and to reject good explanations on that account is to imprison oneself in parochial error. “

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