Top-Down Cause
From Bishop Sand | Part of the Sift series | 12:08
We stroll through the history of causal thought in medicine (and science) and entertain an alternative approach that is getting some traction in physics: top-down causation.
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Medicine (and science) used to believe that something happened because of an enormous amount of causes pilled together. This hollistic approach gave way to the simplifying and reductionistic view of nature that made science so successful. Now, this reductionist approach has reached some limitations in many areas of physics and Christopher Jargocki attempts to explain a way of thinking about cause and effect: the whole system determines the parts. This new approach is called top-down causation and it's very exciting.
Causation 1
From Bishop Sand | Part of the Sift series | 13:46
In this episode we attempt to define causation - a concept that is central to the way we think.
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