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The Demon's Unpaid Bill: Landauer, Finite Observers, and the Limits of Flat Physicalism
Hemmo and Shenker's flat physicalism holds that macroscopic autonomy is merely epistemic - a symptom of observers' finite discriminatory capacities, not a mark of ontological depth. The classification 'merely epistemic' is inapplicable to any world with our physics - not false, but void.