A Correspondence Theorem

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I've been [thinking lately](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/74crqQnH8v9JtJcda/egan-s-theorem) about formalizations of the [Correspondence Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle) - the idea that new theories should reproduce old theories, at least in the places where the old theories work. Special relativity reduces to Galilean relativity at low speed/energy, general relativity reduces to Newtonian gravity when the fields are weak, quantum mechanics should reproduce classical mechanics at large scale, etc. More conceptually, it's the idea that flowers are "real": any model which does a sufficiently-good job of predicting the world around me should have some kind of structure in it corresponding to my notion of a flower (though it may not be ontologically basic).

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• [1] https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/FWuByzM9T5qq2PF2n/a-correspondence-theorem