(December 6, 2021 at 5:12 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(December 4, 2021 at 8:41 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Well, I agree with that and, oddly to you perhaps, is one of the reasons I remain a Christian. Where I part ways with physical reductionists, is that I do not truly believe intentionality can be so reduced.
What about thinking that intentionality can't be reduced leads you to the idea that a god became a man and died on the cross to save the world from sin and death?
The Schrodinger equation, Einstein's equations of General Relativity and (especially) the Dirac equation have very few analytic (exact) solutions; most, to nearly all, real world sets of differential (in most cases, partial) equations do not have exact solutions either. Instead, numerical solutions are the norm. This fact should nix any notion of reducibility. For instance, ecologists do not need Quatum Mechanics to do their jobs.
