Okay. That sounds very good. And it would seem to be in accordance with this statement:
Reductionism is not a positive belief, but rather, a disbelief that the higher levels of simplified multilevel models are out there in the territory.
If reductionism does not entail that I must construct the notion of a territory and include it into my conceptualizations at all times, it’s not a problem. I now understand even better why I was confused by this. This kind of reductionism is not reductive physicalism. It’s hardly a philosophical statement at all, which is good. I would say that “the notion of higher levels being out there in the territory” is meaningless, but expressing disbelief to that notion is apparently intended to convey approximately the same meaning.
RP doesn’t yet actually include reduction. It’s about next on the to do list. Currently it includes an emergence loop that is based on the power set function. The function produces a staggering amount of information in just a few cycles. It seems to me that this is because instead of accounting for emergence relations the mind actually performs, it accounts for all defined emergence relations the mind could perform. So the theory is clearly still under construction, and it doesn’t yet have any kind of an algorithm part. I’m not much of a coder, so I need to work with someone who is. I already know one mathematician who likes to do this stuff with me. He’s not interested of the metaphysical part of the theory, and even said he doesn’t want to know too much about it. :) I’m not guaranteeing RP can be used for anything at all, but it’s interesting.
Okay. That sounds very good. And it would seem to be in accordance with this statement:
If reductionism does not entail that I must construct the notion of a territory and include it into my conceptualizations at all times, it’s not a problem. I now understand even better why I was confused by this. This kind of reductionism is not reductive physicalism. It’s hardly a philosophical statement at all, which is good. I would say that “the notion of higher levels being out there in the territory” is meaningless, but expressing disbelief to that notion is apparently intended to convey approximately the same meaning.
RP doesn’t yet actually include reduction. It’s about next on the to do list. Currently it includes an emergence loop that is based on the power set function. The function produces a staggering amount of information in just a few cycles. It seems to me that this is because instead of accounting for emergence relations the mind actually performs, it accounts for all defined emergence relations the mind could perform. So the theory is clearly still under construction, and it doesn’t yet have any kind of an algorithm part. I’m not much of a coder, so I need to work with someone who is. I already know one mathematician who likes to do this stuff with me. He’s not interested of the metaphysical part of the theory, and even said he doesn’t want to know too much about it. :) I’m not guaranteeing RP can be used for anything at all, but it’s interesting.