Perplexed comments on Explaining vs. Explaining Away - Less Wrong
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This seems related to Dennett's greedy reductionism. HT Doug S.
Hmmm. I wonder how often criticism of reductionism is really criticism of what Dennett calls greedy reductionism. And I wonder whether demands that reductionism must make room for some instances of emergence aren't really just requests for a few of Dennett's cranes.