Reductionism, emergence, and levels of abstractions
Abstract: Can there be independent higher level laws of nature if everything is reducible to the fundamental laws of physics? The computer science notion of level of abstraction explains why there can -- illustrating how computational thinking can solve one of philosophy's most vexing problems.
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