A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down

By A. Leggett. 2005

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Understanding Well-Being and Optimal Functioning: Applying the Multilevel Personality in Context (MPIC) Model (2011, background): “What does it mean to say a phenomenon or level of organization “emerges” from the level below? This remains a very difficult issue in the philosophy of science, with various distinctions proposed between strong versus weak emergence, synergistic versus combinatorial emergence, and more ( Anderson, 1”
On emergence, agency, and organization (2006, background): “Many physicists still pre-suppose some form of classic reductive physicalism, but not all; Philip W. Anderson’s influential ‘More is Different’ (Anderson 1972) represents a well-known counterexample, and the Nobel laureate physicist Robert Laughlin has just published a frontal attack on reductionism”
Executive Functions and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Implications of two conflicting views (2006, background): “Some of these principles are known, but the vast majority are not. ( Laughlin, 2005, p. xiv)”
The Normalization Model of Attention (2009, background): “…we would argue that it is premature to follow a reductionist path toward characterizing the underlying mechanisms (especially without first demonstrating and testing the phenomenological validity of the model), and doing so could obscure the emergent simplicity of the phenomena (Laughlin, 2005).”