Reductionism

Reductionism is a disbelief that the higher levels of simplified multilevel models are out there in the territory, that concepts constructed by mind in themselves play a role in the behavior of reality. This doesn't contradict the notion that the concepts used in simplified multilevel models refer to the actual clusters of configurations of reality.

Blog posts

• Reductionism by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Explaining vs. Explaining Away
• Angry Atoms
• The Virtue of Narrowness by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• All Less Wrong posts tagged "reductionism"

See also

• Reductionism (sequence)
• Universal law, Magic
• Mind projection fallacy
• How an algorithm feels
• Free will
• P-zombie