The goal of “reductionism” is to take all of nature apart to see all the cogs and levers moving matter and energy around. A thorough going materialist could hope that reductionism is the path, however arduous, to a complete understanding of the universe. A more modest version of materialism would allow that some aspects of the universe will inevitably remain opaqu (...)
October 07, 2005
Books
A Different Universe
A Different Universeby Robert B. LaughlinThe Artful Universe Expandedby John D. Barrow
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