Eliezer, in Excluding the Supernatural, you wrote:
Ultimately, reductionism is just disbelief in fundamentally complicated things. If "fundamentally complicated" sounds like an oxymoron... well, that's why I think that the doctrine of non-reductionism is a confusion, rather than a way that things could be, but aren't.
"Fundamentally complicated" does sound like an oxymoron to me, but I'm not sure I could say why. Could you?
I'm having the same difficulty. Aren't quarks (or whatever is the most elemental bit of matter) fundamentally complicated? What's meant by "complicated"?
(Sorry for being so chatty.)
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