Re:Higher-level causation exists (but I wish it didn’t)
by ianai on Monday June 05, 2017 @03:02AM
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Thank you for that!
In that context, I could maybe see an argument based on chaos theory. i.e. systems being essentially infinitely large compared to their component parts. There could be macro-states that are indistinguishable at micro-scale given any computational ability.
But then...you would have to be arguing against the ability to experiment. One way to compute macro-states of a system would be to duplicate that system.
Without getting much further into it...I see this becoming a serious rabbit hole in no time.
In that context, I could maybe see an argument based on chaos theory. i.e. systems being essentially infinitely large compared to their component parts. There could be macro-states that are indistinguishable at micro-scale given any computational ability.
But then...you would have to be arguing against the ability to experiment. One way to compute macro-states of a system would be to duplicate that system.
Without getting much further into it...I see this becoming a serious rabbit hole in no time.