(2018-11-05, 05:49 PM)Silence Wrote: I don't know Paul.
While reductive explanations are powerful and common, they may not be the only form for knowledge. Aren't you presupposing reductive explanations as the only valid form? Again, its your constraint, not mine. If you argument is something like "Its worked so far to the exclusion of any other paradigm" I certainly get that, but that does not mean it will always be that way. I'm open to other potential avenues.
I'm open, too, but if someone can't give a coherent description of what it might look like in principle, then I'm not sure why it's worth entertaining until such time as someone can.
It's the same reason why I don't think libertarian free will is worth the bother, at least for now.
~~ Paul
If the existence of a thing is indistinguishable from its nonexistence, we say that thing does not exist. ---Yahzi