reductionism

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Philosophical view that all phenomena can be explained by physical processes

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Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies · Explaining vs. Explaining Away · 3:10 · Mar 2015
…What could be going on in the anti-reductionists' minds such that they would put rainbows and belief in reductionism in the same category as haunts and gnomes?…
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Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies · Explaining vs. Explaining Away · 3:00 · Mar 2015
…Which is to say, according to scientific reductionism,…
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Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies · Explaining vs. Explaining Away · 2:28 · Mar 2015
…The key word in the above is mere, a word which implies that accepting reductionism would explain away all the reasoning processes leading up to my acceptance of reductionism the way that an optical illusion is explained away.…
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Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies · Explaining vs. Explaining Away · 2:19 · Mar 2015
…then even your belief in reductionism is just the mere……
Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies · Explaining vs. Explaining Away · 2:18 · Mar 2015
…If reductionism is correct,…
Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies · Reductionism · 8:18 · Mar 2015
…Reductionism is not a positive belief, but rather a disbelief……
Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies · Reductionism · 8:14 · Mar 2015
…This, as I see it, is the thesis of reductionism.…
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