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A comment on Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology to Physics (1994). Parent comment

Re:Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology t... by riffraff on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:39PM (#18107613)
the claim is not that they are not explained by laws of nature, but that they are not explained by physics.

It's like saying you can't model a football game in terms of the behavior of proteins. Sure there are proteins, and there is no magic anywhere, but the conceptual gap is just too vast.

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Re:Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology t... by simonh on Sunday September 30, 2018 @04:58PM (#18108382)
Right, so they are meta-phenomena. They are still entirely physical. The actual process occurring is physical, but there is information being processed and meaning in what’s happening that can be analysed independently of the physical substrate.
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