For us to be able to coordinate lots of human activity, a in a big corporation or military or whatever, we need to be. able to decompose complex tasks into a bunch of small tasks. In doing so, and this is kind of key to reductionism, as we convert the complex to the complicated, we convert the a self organizing nature of nature to a some taxonomy that you can separate thinking. And it's why complex chronic disease doesn't actually have cures, ecause we don't understand them. The same is true with can you fix the environment without understanding industry and impho structure and economics and human political theories like it's all deeply connected.

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