David Wallace
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So there's there's some
There's obviously some sense in which it's true that the fluid is mostly empty space, but there's a very important sense in which it's not true that the fluid is mostly empty space.
Um
So that notion of mereological composition
is a bit problematic as well.
Um what Dennett offers us, and his reasons for bringing it up are slightly different than the thing I take from it, but ultimately it's compatible, I think, is well
A good general thing to say about macroscopic ontology is macroscopic stuff is patterns and structures in low level stuff.
So
Um a pattern is a slightly abstract thing, but nonetheless, um I can say, Look, the the water is a certain pattern in the behaviour of the atoms.
the laptop is a certain pattern in in behavior of different atoms.
Um
uh the economy is a certain pattern in the behavior of humans and companies.
Um
The atom is a certain pattern in the behavior of
Quantum chromodynamics.
And that's uh
Oh w uh there's more to say here and gets a little bit into the weeds and metaphysics, but as a starting point, that idea of patterns is
a bit more ontologically flexible to make sense of the relation between theories on different levels.
without
either giving up on what we seem to know about scientific reduction and inter level relations internal to physics
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