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The edge of reductionism

P.-M. Binder
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P.-M. Binder: University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA, and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. pbinder@hawaii.edu

Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7245, 332-333

Abstract: Research at the frontier between computer science and physics illustrates the shortcomings of the reductionist approach to science, which explains macroscopic behaviour using microscopic principles.

Date: 2009
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