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shminux comments on [SEQ RERUN] Reductionism - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 04 March 2012 01:39:41AM *  1 point [-]

I thought I had clearly explained it in my original top-level comment: the underlying structure is irrelevant for the entities a few levels removed.

the universe itself has only the single level of fundamental physics - reality doesn't explicitly compute protons, only quarks.

And if it did, it wouldn't matter for atomic physics and up.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 March 2012 09:55:28PM 1 point [-]

I understand what you are saying. Why are you saying it? What is interesting about the idea that higher levels of your map are agnostic to lower level details? What is the query?