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Donald Hoffman PHD - USER INTERFACE THEORY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

CHAPTER

Reductionism Is Dead

Donna Brazile: It feels like we're fighting against an extraordinary tide here without a complete change in sort of the consensus. We're already seeing the most brilliant physicists at the forefront of the field that have let go of reductionism and are going beyond it. So scientific explanation is still a perfectly valid approach. It's just not a reductionist explanation. And so that reductionist framework does not work after a certain amount, she says.

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