I had the view that everything in theory is reducible to physics and that everything is matter and energy. Recently I came across emergentism and holism and complexity theory. Which is making me confused. The statement that the sum of parts can't explain the whole and that higher order phenomenon even in principle can't be reduced to physics is quite disturbing to me. — Swimmingwithfishes
1 why can't laws of nature and other fields be reduced to physics alone ? — Swimmingwithfishes
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