PrawnOfFate comments on The real difference between Reductionism and Emergentism - Less Wrong
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Well, no, but reducing to the properties of (and some suitable well behaved set of relations between) the smallest ingredients is what reductionists mean by reductionism.
I would have thought reductionists think they can be reduced and identity theorists think they are already identical.
"in principle" means in the absence of de-facto limits in cognitive and/or computational power.
Errrr...you believe in Token Identity but not Type Identity???