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Reductionism

TagLast edit: 24 Sep 2020 18:50 UTC by Multicore

Reductionism is a disbelief that the higher levels of simplified multilevel models are out there in the territory, that concepts constructed by mind in themselves play a role in the behavior of reality. This doesn’t contradict the notion that the concepts used in simplified multilevel models refer to the actual clusters of configurations of reality.

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Cri­sis of Faith case study: be­yond re­duc­tion­ism?

MalcolmOcean8 Jun 2023 6:11 UTC
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Reductionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2008 6:26 UTC
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On the Role of Proto-Languages

adamShimi22 Sep 2024 16:50 UTC
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(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

3C’s: A Recipe For Mathing Concepts

3 Jul 2024 1:06 UTC
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Mixed Refer­ence: The Great Re­duc­tion­ist Project

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2012 0:26 UTC
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Ex­clud­ing the Supernatural

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Sep 2008 0:12 UTC
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Hand vs. Fingers

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Mar 2008 0:36 UTC
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[Question] What are brains?

Valentine10 Jun 2023 14:46 UTC
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Hilbert’s Triumph, Church and Tur­ing’s failure, and what it means (Post #2)

Noosphere8930 Jul 2023 14:33 UTC
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Bad reductionism

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 8:21 UTC
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The Re­duc­tion­ist Trap

J Bostock9 Aug 2021 17:00 UTC
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Ex­pla­na­tions as Hard to Vary Assertions

Alexander24 Sep 2021 11:33 UTC
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Re­duc­tion­ism is not the ul­ti­mate tool for causal inference

tailcalled7 Jan 2022 21:51 UTC
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The Case for Fre­quen­tism: Why Bayesian Prob­a­bil­ity is Fun­da­men­tally Un­sound and What Science Does Instead

lsusr3 Apr 2022 20:52 UTC
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The al­gorithm isn’t do­ing X, it’s just do­ing Y.

Cleo Nardo16 Mar 2023 23:28 UTC
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Re­marks 1–18 on GPT (com­pressed)

Cleo Nardo20 Mar 2023 22:27 UTC
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Fake Reductionism

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Mar 2008 22:49 UTC
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Against Mo­dal Logics

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Aug 2008 22:13 UTC
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Bridge Col­lapse: Re­duc­tion­ism as Eng­ineer­ing Problem

Rob Bensinger18 Feb 2014 22:03 UTC
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Re­duc­ing Agents: When ab­strac­tions break

Hazard31 Mar 2018 0:03 UTC
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Unity of Doc­trine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy

JonathanErhardt22 Apr 2022 13:16 UTC
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Re­duc­tion­ism Revisited

alkjash20 Mar 2018 6:00 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

How do low level hy­pothe­ses con­strain high level ones? The mys­tery of the dis­ap­pear­ing di­a­mond.

Christopher King11 Jul 2023 19:27 UTC
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The Virtue of Narrowness

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
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A First At­tempt to Dis­solve “Is Con­scious­ness Re­ducible?”

DragonGod20 Aug 2022 23:39 UTC
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Psy­chic Powers

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Sep 2008 19:28 UTC
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Tapestries of Gold

[deleted]27 Apr 2014 7:23 UTC
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The Laws of Magic

Annoyance15 Jun 2009 19:13 UTC
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Re­mind Phys­i­cal­ists They’re Physicalists

lukeprog15 Aug 2011 4:36 UTC
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“Free Will” in a Com­pu­ta­tional Universe

DragonGod22 Sep 2022 21:25 UTC
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Heat vs. Motion

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2008 3:55 UTC
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Ob­jec­tive truth?

pchvykov15 Feb 2021 21:47 UTC
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Book Re­view: Free Will

Ape in the coat11 Oct 2021 18:41 UTC
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Don’t want Good­hart? — Spec­ify the vari­ables more

YanLyutnev21 Nov 2024 22:43 UTC
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Don’t want Good­hart? — Spec­ify the damn variables

Ян Лютнев21 Nov 2024 22:45 UTC
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Math­e­mat­ics As Physics

Nox ML6 Dec 2023 22:27 UTC
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Mun­dane Magic

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Oct 2008 16:00 UTC
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Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
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Joy in the Merely Real

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Mar 2008 6:18 UTC
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Build­ing a Rosetta stone for re­duc­tion­ism and telism (WIP)

mrcbarbier7 Jan 2023 16:22 UTC
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Ex­plain­ing vs. Ex­plain­ing Away

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Mar 2008 1:59 UTC
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Some limi­ta­tions of re­duc­tion­ism about epistemology

Richard_Ngo14 Feb 2022 8:50 UTC
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(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

An­gry Atoms

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Mar 2008 0:28 UTC
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What a re­duc­tion of “could” could look like

cousin_it12 Aug 2010 17:41 UTC
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