Philosophical reductionism is (sort of) the belief that complex systems act the way they do because of the simpler actions of simpler systems that make them up. I think that this is pretty solidly true in our universe, and I won’t discuss it further.
Is it true though? Fundamental physics seems to require more and more complex math.
You could say “physics can be approximated by some Turing machine, made of simple things like bits and state transitions”, which sounds plausible, but not sure why call it reductionism.
Is it true though? Fundamental physics seems to require more and more complex math.
You could say “physics can be approximated by some Turing machine, made of simple things like bits and state transitions”, which sounds plausible, but not sure why call it reductionism.