The historical success of inter-theoretic reductions in science—thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, optics to electromagnetism—shows substrate-level resources regularly prove adequate for realized-level phenomena.
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The discipline that addresses how the thermodynamic and mechanical ways of looking at a system fit together; the study of the connection between micro-physics and macro-physics, aiming to account for a system's macro behaviour in terms of the dynamical laws governing its microscopic constituents.
Substrate-level(referring to the simpler building blocks that explain more complex things)
The more basic or fundamental level—like how atoms are more basic than the objects made of atoms.
Thermodynamics(example of a theory that was reduced)
The science that studies heat, energy, and how they move and transform in physical systems.