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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Emergent properties Memes

Posts tagged with Emergent properties

The Great Scientific Reductionism Death Match

Biology Physics Math Science Academia
2 days ago 9.6K views 0 shares
The Great Scientific Reductionism Death Match
The scientific discipline domino effect in full glory! Ernst Mayr would be clutching his pearls at this reductionist cascade that strips biology of its uniqueness faster than DNA unzips during replication! 🧬 Each field getting assassinated by the next in this academic hit job - biology reduced to chemistry, chemistry to physics, physics to math, math to philosophy, and poor philosophy getting absolutely DEMOLISHED as just "misunderstood language." Mayr spent his career arguing that biology has emergent properties not reducible to physics and chemistry - like natural selection and historical contingency - and here's this meme collapsing the entire scientific enterprise faster than a neutron star! The ultimate academic mic drop!

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