I’m still puzzled, as you seem to be both defending and contradicting EY’s view that:
the reductionist thesis is that we use multi-level models for computational reasons, but physical reality has only a single level. (Italics added).
I’m not actually attacking this view so much as regarding it as a particular convention or definition of reality rather than a “thesis”.
Perhaps you are reading “best characterized as” as “best modelled as”? I’m not saying that, just that this is the sense of “reality” that EY/the wiki writer prefers to adopt.
What made your characterization one of greedy reduction in my eyse was this
Describe it at whatever level is most convenient. All levels are real to the extent that they model accurately.
I’m still puzzled, as you seem to be both defending and contradicting EY’s view that:
I’m not actually attacking this view so much as regarding it as a particular convention or definition of reality rather than a “thesis”.
Perhaps you are reading “best characterized as” as “best modelled as”? I’m not saying that, just that this is the sense of “reality” that EY/the wiki writer prefers to adopt.