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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
What we're really talking about is reducibility. If one successfully "reduces" outer behavior, does that imply that we can eliminate talk of outer behavior? Not necessarily. One can explain the behavior of a bomb as a whole by describing the behavior of its parts. Yet the capacity to explode is a property of the whole that none of the parts possess. Nothing "mere" about that! My point is that we shouldn't be content with surface behavior, especially if there is a research program that promises to uncover the inner behavior.
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Your bomb example here describes a reduction to components. In what sense is Bohm's physics that sort of reduction of quantum physics? It seems to me that these are two different recipes for calculation and any notion that one recipe describes the inner mechanism of the other is mistaking theory for mechanism.