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In reply to the discussion: Quantum Biology and the Puzzle of Coherence [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)36. A clarification
"Top-down causality" is a new term for me, so I googled and made a subnote of the first hit. The term seems to be related also to holism and Bohm's notion of active information - and "bottom up" to reductionism. Philosophically the question is simply about codependent dialectic of parts and wholes and causes and consequenses.
I agree that "well defined" in terms of mathematical physics should be a mathematical formulation. This idea is very interesting:
http://matpitka.blogspot.com/2012/03/quantum-mathematics.html#comments
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