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EP 172 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

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The Emergence of Reductionism

Before you're able to differentiate parts from the whole, you live in sort of a undifferentiated kind of confused holism. And that is very much the mentality that characterized the pre-modern world,. You know, and mass and large. So it's only with the advent of very intentional mechanisms and approaches, methodologies to separate individual parts from the vast whole that gets the whole scientific enterprise going. Then again, kind of leads to that ultimate break between the pre- Modern and modern worlds.

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