On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Günther Greindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> Glen, > > > Reductionism is about understanding what's going on under the hood. I > don't know why people oppose this. > > Here's one reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism Reductionists have a well-earned reputation for performing blind over-simplifications in their often miss-guided attempts to analyze complex systems. The ego that allows one to assume that non-humans can be reductively explained as automata has already demonstrated a mind-numbing blindness to the complexities of the world around him. The 360 years since Descarte have not changed human nature much: there are still plenty of people who view the world in similar simplisctic and egotistic manner. --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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