Scale Transitions and Conservation Limits
How new physical phenomena emerge at higher scales that do not exist at lower scales, and why reductionism is scale-bounded.
Anderson-style emergence shows behaviors that are invisible at one scale that are irreducible to that scale's component rules.
From the LHS Lens, scale transitions are the physical homologue of the social thesis that institutions have properties their members do not — the discipline is to refuse both reduction to the atom and rest at the gestalt.
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