It would be more accurate to say “Trees are special cases of waveforms” and “Bark is special cases of waveforms”, in that you can now describe the properties of trees (they have bark) without claiming that trees are more or less or equally as real as quarks.
I used “quarks” as a placeholder for whatever “fundamental” physical entities are posited as “truly real” by the reductionist. You seem to be using “waveforms” in a similar way, so I am confused as to whether we have a disagreement or not.
If the fundamental concept in physical theory is “waveform”, then I’d say: there is a map in which you can describe all reality as waveforms. There is a map, less comprehensive but more useful for many purposes, in which you can describe some aspects of reality as trees. I don’t like saying “Trees are special cases of waveforms” because it seems to place the reductionism at the ontic level (territory) instead of in the maps: it is a short distance from it to “only waveforms really exist”, which I regard as confused.
It would be more accurate to say “Trees are special cases of waveforms” and “Bark is special cases of waveforms”, in that you can now describe the properties of trees (they have bark) without claiming that trees are more or less or equally as real as quarks.
I used “quarks” as a placeholder for whatever “fundamental” physical entities are posited as “truly real” by the reductionist. You seem to be using “waveforms” in a similar way, so I am confused as to whether we have a disagreement or not.
If the fundamental concept in physical theory is “waveform”, then I’d say: there is a map in which you can describe all reality as waveforms. There is a map, less comprehensive but more useful for many purposes, in which you can describe some aspects of reality as trees. I don’t like saying “Trees are special cases of waveforms” because it seems to place the reductionism at the ontic level (territory) instead of in the maps: it is a short distance from it to “only waveforms really exist”, which I regard as confused.