Is the reductionist approach and first principles thinking the same thing ?
And how reductionism and emergentism/holistic related to top-down bottom-up approach ?
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1This is a bunch of vague and ambiguous terminology. You need a lot more context to make this question meaningful. – David Gudeman Jul 08 '23 at 06:15
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What on Earth does Elon Musk have to do with thinking from first principles? You've also asked a 2nd quite substantial question. You should ask it seperately. – CriglCragl Jul 08 '23 at 09:02
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No - not the same. Keyword search [*Elon Musk first principles youtube*] turns up a bunch of videos with his discussion of first principles thinking. Links are not answers to questions but I offer a link. I recommend watching this 43 minute video which covers the complexity of our causal reasoning in an engineering, physics, and system analysis: **On the Nature of Causality in Complex Systems, George F.R. Ellis** - https://youtu.be/nEhTkF3eG8Q. In my experience we recognize humans as the moral cause(s) of ethical outcomes but without any compelling analytical "system reduction models". – SystemTheory Jul 09 '23 at 01:54