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caeli · 3391 days ago · link · · parent · post: Do you have creative theories about existence, space and time?
Something that's always fascinated me is the useful units we land on at different levels of analysis. For example, it is hard and not very useful to describe everything in terms of the smallest units possible, right? That's why we describe molecules in the language of chemistry and not in terms of all of their subatomic particles, that's why we describe cells in the language of biology and not in terms of all of their subatomic particles, etc etc. This often makes me wonder -- what will end up being the useful units at higher levels of analysis? I have no answers, only questions, but it's a fun thing to think about.