
Talking Whitehead and the World Soul | Dr Matthew Segall
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Is Reductionism Really Dumb?
I think he didn't think reductionism was necessarily always dumb. I think he saw its value within a particular limited frame of application. Reductionism got us quantum electro dynamics and on the periodic table of elements, i mean, all this crat stops so, well, except a bit of vidantism went into the quantum electro dynamics. A physics and chemistry are very much open to this sort of analysis. Not completely. Thereis plenty of ways that productionism makes us miss important feature of the physical world and the chemical world. But but none the less,. i mean, pure reduction.
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