@DrYohanJohn I'm fond of (and yet very skeptical of) grand unifying schemes, myself. This appears to take the usual multilevel characterization of science and label envelopes of consideration for interdisciplinary disciplines which connect multiple levels, and then incorporate the Aristotelian notions of cause into the picture. Interesting! Lots to think about here on some fraught subjects within philosophy of science: reduction, causation, unification, emergence, explanation, methodology, etc.

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@DrYohanJohn I also took a gander at [the PowerPoint](uibk.ac.at/psychologie/humanet) the image originates from out of curiosity. It seems to originate from the work of an anthropologist named Gerhard Medicus, specifically from his book _Being Human: Bridging the Gap between the Sciences of Body and Mind_, but is a reproduction from Rupert Riedl (_On the biology of causal thinking: an evolutionist, system-theoretical attempt_), an Austrian zoologist. Interesting!

@johnnylogic Yes I went down that rabbithole too. I might check out Riedl's work.

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