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Friday, June 24, 2005

The Forest for the Quarks

I enjoyed this NYT review of Robert B. Laughlin's "A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Up." In it, Keay Davidson discusses some of the pitfalls of reductionism. I'd like to make the case that some (or more) philosophy should be part of computer science undergraduate programs, but for now I think I'm going to stick to collecting footnotes.

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