JohnWittle comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JohnWittle 19 March 2013 03:15:37AM 2 points [-]

An excellent example of a published paper against reductionism, using "emergence" in exactly this way such that it is indiscernible from "magic", is here:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3866/1/Tilburg_submission_fin.pdf