ArisKatsaris comments on Open Thread, September 15-30, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pengvado 25 September 2012 04:12:34PM 2 points [-]

How so? In a local nonreductionist universe, wouldn't a fundamentally complicated thing just have to have zero width?

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 25 September 2012 06:35:52PM 0 points [-]

Ah, I guess I was thinking of a different type of non-reductionism, where e.g. an organism gained an extra non-reductionist property "life" which caused all its parts to behave differently than if they lacked that property...