The Reductionist Blind Spot

被引：1

作者：

Abbott, Russ ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Calif State Univ Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA

来源：

COMPLEXITY | 2009年 / 14卷 / 05期

关键词：

emergence; entities; level of abstraction; reductionism;

D O I：

10.1002/cplx.20274

中图分类号：

O1 [数学];

学科分类号：

0701 ; 070101 ;

摘要：

Can there be higher level laws of nature even though everything is reducible to the fundamental laws of physics? The computer science notion of level of abstraction explains how there can be. The key relationship between elements on different levels of abstraction is not the is-composed-of relationship but the implements relationship. I take a scientific realist position with respect to (material) levels of abstraction and their instantiation as (material) entities. They exist as objective elements of nature. Reducing them away to lower order phenomena produces a reductionist blind spot and is bad science. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 14: 10-22, 2009

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页数：13

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