Something that helps me understand reductionism is defining “hands” not as a set of quarks in some state, but as a range of possible sets of quarks in a range of possible states.
Replace quarks by whatever fundamental thing reality is made of.
Replace quarks by whatever fundamental thing reality is made of.
That’s the kicker, isn’t it. We’d like to be able to look at an arbitrary model of the world, and see if it has any observers in it who might experience “hands”.
Something that helps me understand reductionism is defining “hands” not as a set of quarks in some state, but as a range of possible sets of quarks in a range of possible states. Replace quarks by whatever fundamental thing reality is made of.
That’s the kicker, isn’t it. We’d like to be able to look at an arbitrary model of the world, and see if it has any observers in it who might experience “hands”.