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Matter, said Descartes, is res externa—body with extension, divisible. For the material world, it makes sense that macro is made of micro, macro is reducible to micro. What is the usefulness of this reduction?
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Goswami, A. (2000). Matter, Energy, Conservation Laws, and the Rise of Materialism. In: The Physicists’ View of Nature, Part 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1227-1_5
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