Frank_Hirsch comments on Hand vs. Fingers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Frank_Hirsch 30 March 2008 04:49:18PM 1 point [-]

Caledonian: Sure you do. That's why we have biology and chemistry and neuroscience instead of having only one field: physics.

That's just a matter of efficiency (as I have tried to illuminate). There is nothing about those high level descriptions that is not compatible with physics. They are often more convenient and practical, but they do not add one iota of explanatory power.