glen e. p. ropella wrote: > Even if the parts don't have a common, underlying physics > (Truth/Reality), as long as they can interact _somehow_ and if they > interact a lot (highly connected), then a common "physics" may cohere > after a time so that a forcing structure limits the degrees of freedom. > Assuming there is some forcing structure (ok, better to avoid the word "physics"), my point is that it has to be posited, such that it is clear that the function or set of functions can't just disguise any number of degrees of freedom.
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