Jason, I accept your response. For the sake of better following we might
use the (" ... ") addition to our listings to show that there may be
more than ONE
John M
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> John,
>
> Comments in-line:
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 2:35 PM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> JKC: why do you think your ??? is T H E FLOOR? there may be innumerable
>> lower levels... we just don't have the brains to think further.
>>
>>
> "???" is not necessarily one thing, but a stand in for at least one
> explanatory layer that exists below physics.
>
>
>> Q: what is the T O P ?
>>
>
> There's not necessarily a singular top, many things might go above
> sociology such as game theory, political theory, economics, etc. I arranged
> the layers mainly in a manner to show the reductionist relationships
> between different fields, and how some fields can be entirely explained by
> more fundamental sciences.
>
> Jason
>
>
>>
>> John M
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 1:31 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> β> β
>>>> These diagrams might help give you a picture for what Bruno is talking
>>>> about when he mentions Aristotelism. It relates to a question of
>>>> reductionism and explaination. "Is physics the most fundamental science, or
>>>> can it be explained and derived from something at a lower layer?"
>>>>
>>>
>>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>> βIs ??? really the floor or does ??? need an explanation too? If not
>>> and there are only finitely many layers to your pyramid then I think it
>>> more likely that physics =???, physics is the explanatory floor and
>>> mathematics is just the best language minds can use to describe physics.
>>>
>>> John K Clark
>>>
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