# Emergence and Reductionism

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**Created:** [August 4, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/emergence-and-reductionism/2227 "2026-08-04T18:22:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/emergence-and-reductionism/2227/1 "2026-08-04T18:22:13Z")

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I remember reading some stuff about Emergence and Reductionism a long time ago in some Objectivist article collection (I’ll probably look for the original article at some point). I looked up the author (I did this with other article authors,) and came across this website (wayback machine link because original website is down, also idk if this is that authors website i cant find a name on their):

> **[bioperipatetic](https://web.archive.org/web/20260203190105/https://bioperipatetic.com/)**
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> Emergence Theory and Ontology in the Biosciences

I read a bit of the stuff and found it interesting. Oh yeah, I’m sharing this because I realized the other day that I think of the concept of emergence and reductionism quite a bit (specifically, I read some economic stuff for class recently and thought maybe economics is an emergent(?) science).

Does anyone have any familiar with this topic?

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**Author:** ![Eternity](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/eternity/32/5930_2.png) [@Eternity](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Eternity)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/emergence-and-reductionism/2227/2 "2026-08-04T19:29:44Z")

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> [@Eternity](#):
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> I’ll probably look for the original article at some point

Ok. It was from _The Objectivist_ volume 7 called _Biology without Consciousness - And Its Consequences_ by Robert Efron.

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In the process of finding this I came across an article in _The Objectivist Forum_ about science that mentioned Popper. I looked up the article wondering if theirs any online versions of it. Couldn’t find it, but I did get an AI overview of it. Two of the things it referenced was from Elliot:

> **[Quality of Objectivist Criticism of Popper](https://groups.google.com/g/beginning-of-infinity/c/xU9s0lmvkcQ)**

> **[Curiosity – Edwin Locke vs. Popper](https://curi.us/2258-edwin-locke-vs-popper)**
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> This is a repost from The Beginning of Infinity google group, 2013-01-06, by me. Harry Binswanger wrote: Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:14 PM Objectivism holds that perception is infallible and that all

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**Author:** ![Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/elliot/32/14_2.png) [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/emergence-and-reductionism/2227/3 "2026-08-04T20:23:44Z")

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> [@Eternity](#):
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> I came across an article in _The Objectivist Forum_ about science that mentioned Popper

Title, author and volume?

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**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/emergence-and-reductionism/2227/4 "2026-08-04T20:26:21Z")

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> [@Elliot](#):
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> Title, author and volume?

James G. Lennox, “The Anti-Philosophy of Science”, The Objectivist Forum Volume 2

It’s the article that Binswanger is referencing in the above BoI group/curi post.