Reductionism (exemplified by Leibniz and Steven Weinberg) claims that to understand the temporal evolution of phenomena at every level of a hierarchy, one must look at the most reduced level, making higher-level phenomena epiphenomena—this is 'a manifestly false statement' as demonstrated by the mathematical example of Fermat's proof.
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“liit was a reductionist and within this framework this is what that means it means to understand the temporal evolution of every level every hierarchy of phenomena the only real way to understand their evolution is to look at the most reduced level this is the kind of position of people like Steven Weinberg and even Roger Penrose to a certain point degree right that if I want to understand things like Consciousness I really have to understand physics right everything else is an epip phenomenon this is a manifestly false statement”
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:52:22 PM
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