There was not a shortage of Microsoft product specialists - which were more than happy to give us a high level explanation or a deep dive.
In addition, Wimsatt points out that the "costs" of working out reductive explanations of the many particulars already explained at a higher level are relevant to the question of why there is not a full-scale replacement of higher level explanations with lower level ones.
Sometimes a lower level explanation is better relative to one epistemic property, while a higher level explanation is preferable relative to another epistemic quality, such as unification.
Keating became a stellar performer, making his mark with a blend of earthy attacks on his opponents and high-level explanations and lectures on the more arcane aspects of economics.
It is shown that the resulting lists provide high-level explanations of optimal treatments for the disease.
We are not claiming that our simple multiple-scale DoG model can replace all the mid- to high-level explanations for similar illusions.
High-level explanations need higher cortical processing of visual clues such as lightness/transparency as well as past experiences and inferences [19, 20, 21].
Hermann Grid and Mach Bands have commonly accepted explanations involving the low-level visual retinal/cortical processing by simple cells [10, 11] and the Lateral Inhibition (LI) mechanism, which some of them need high-level explanations.
