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Comment author: gwern 29 February 2012 03:48:17AM 7 points [-]

He dislikes the term "emergence", and he is entitled to his emotions, but the sad experience is that nuclear physics is no help in psychology, not even after you say "reductionism" three times.

/looks up from reading a study using positron-emission-from-nuclear-isotopes tracing in the brain

I'm sorry, were you saying something?

Comment author: [deleted] 29 February 2012 03:59:39AM 6 points [-]

I think the point was that modeling the brain with enough precision that nuclear physics became necessary to take into account would be intractable and likely not very useful anyway.

But you got the snark thing down, so upvotes for everyone.

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