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089 - Connections - James Burke

You Are Not So Smart

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What Is the Brain's Interconnectedness?

Aristotle was the final authority on everything at the time then all bets were off. He said reduce every problem to its smallest individual component parts. And you'll see how they fit together and therefore how it works. His reductionism laid the ground for what we now call scientific thinking. The name of the game of the 17th century was what was called useful knowledge knowledge that could improve people's lives.

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