David Wallace
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precise physics description of a person would give you an accurate probably prediction about what their physical state will be in the future and th n and that other facts about them, like, you know,
which political party they support or something, ultimately supervene on those physics facts.
So that in that sense people are physical.
Uh well again, I don't think I know how to say what physical means a priori outside
the concrete context, the physics we have.
I mean
Uh you know, you could
Imagine a world with weird pluralistic dynamics and some of them would be some of them you'd call physics and some you'd call some other dynamics or s or science or something.
And then maybe emergence would be this weird, complicated framework.
I mean, you know, it's clearly not true that something biological has to emerge from something else biological.
Um, it's certainly not true that something um
that's usefully studied by the theories of electrical electrical conductivity has to emerge by something else from something else that's usefully studied by the methods of electrical conductivity.
So the claim
The
everything physical is emerging from something else.
Physical is basically relying on the kind of
dynamic culturality of physics, I guess.
Uh, I think the evidence for the mammal priority of physics is pretty good.
I don't think we live in that kind of disconnected patchwork pluralistic world, but it's not
It's not conceptually impossible that we could live in a world like that and the evidence is
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