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Reductionism refers to several related but different philosophical positions regarding the connections between phenomena, or theories, "reducing" one to another, usually considered "simpler" or more "basic".The Oxford Companion to Philosophy suggests that it is "one of the most used and abused terms in the philosophical lexicon" and suggests a three part division:
Reductionism can be applied to objects, phenomena, explanations, theories, and meanings.
In the sciences, application of methodological reductionism attempts explanation of entire systems in terms of their individual, constituent parts and their interactions. Thomas Nagel speaks of psychophysical reductionism (the attempted reduction of psychological phenomena to physics and chemistry), as do others and physico-chemical reductionism (the attempted reduction of biology to physics and chemistry), again as do others. In a very simplified and sometimes contested form, such reductionism is said to imply that a system is nothing but the sum of its parts. However, a more nuanced view is that a system is composed entirely of its parts, but the system will have features that none of the parts have. "The point of mechanistic explanations is usually showing how the higher level features arise from the parts."
For full courses see: http://complexitylabs.io/courses Holism and reductionism represent two paradigms or worldviews within science and philosophy that provide fundamentally different accounts as how to best view, interpret and reason about the world around us. Reductionism places an emphasis on the constituent parts of a system, while holism places an emphasis on the whole system. Twitter: https://goo.gl/Nu6Qap Facebook: https://goo.gl/ggxGMT LinkedIn:https://goo.gl/3v1vwF
A short introduction to the concepts of reductionism and emergence in philosophy and science, with their profound implications for human phenomena such as free will, consciousness, and morality.
Please watch this video in fullscreen and high-definition (1080p) for the optimal viewing experience. --- Is life really a game of pinball? Are human actions merely the result of initial conditions, physics, and chance? This view has been adopted by some of the leading scientists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, is it a hypothesis truly scientific? Does the data taken from both experimental science and real life experience support such a claim or does it point to a different conclusion? The Reductionist Delusion presents a critical look, from the position of commonsense illustrated using statistical mathematics, at the theoretical position that all life's actions are the result of initial conditions, physics, and chance. --- This video is licensed under CC BY...
(May 19, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives what he calls "one of the most difficult lectures of the course" about chaos and reductionism. He references a book that he assigned to his students. This lecture focuses on reduction science and breaking things down to their component parts in order to understand them best. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford Department of Biology: http://biology.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Video shows what reductionism means. an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components. Reductionism is a philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanation, theories, and meanings. Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena". Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it. Reductionism does not preclude the exi...
A powerful scientific method of observation has helped scientists understand the brain. That method closely parallels Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel's journey to make his most famous discoveries. Kandel's latest book is "Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures" (https://goo.gl/z9xUXK). Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/eric-kandel-on-reductionism-and-the-biology-of-memory Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - What reductionism allows you to do is to take a complex problem and focus on one component of it and try to understand it in some detail. And sometimes you can just do it by focusing on one component, other times it requir...
John Dupré and Alex Rosenberg discuss physicalist reductionism & anti-reductionism. According to physicalism (materialism), nothing which exists is non-physical, immaterial, spiritual, or otherwise incorporeal. According to reductionism, all facts can be captured by some purely physical description of the world. So are mental properties reducible to physical properties in this sense? Are psychology and the other social sciences reducible to biology and physics? In this debate, Dupré defends the more orthodox view, while Rosenberg defends the less popular view: physicalist reductionism. They also discuss some of the issues for both views. Reductionism faces, for instance, the problem of multiple realizability (i.e. how the very same mental states could occur in organisms which have very dif...
Brilliant lecture about chaos theory and the butterfly effect.
The important concepts of Holism and Reductionism are explored in this essential topic revision video for all A Level Psychology students as they revise Issues and Debates. To be alerted as soon as we publish more A Level Psychology videos, please SUBSCRIBE to this channel.
guillaume.karpowicz@gmail.com The music is made by the brilliant Nick Kwaś: https://wandertalk.bandcamp.com/track/modular-on-the-roof-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAQ0zDyKjCQ Thank you to Henrys and Play Juggling for providing me with respectively Circus diabolos and Deos sticks. Thank you to Operahögskolan of Stockholm. The central idea is that diabolo is very easily put in motion with seemingly no source of movement since the tension of the string is barely visible. That principle is specific to diabolo and I chose to base my recent material on it. Hence all the string climbs, translations and bounces that require no big movement.
For full courses see: http://complexitylabs.io/courses Holism and reductionism represent two paradigms or worldviews within science and philosophy that provide fundamentally different accounts as how to best view, interpret and reason about the world around us. Reductionism places an emphasis on the constituent parts of a system, while holism places an emphasis on the whole system. Twitter: https://goo.gl/Nu6Qap Facebook: https://goo.gl/ggxGMT LinkedIn:https://goo.gl/3v1vwF
A short introduction to the concepts of reductionism and emergence in philosophy and science, with their profound implications for human phenomena such as free will, consciousness, and morality.
Please watch this video in fullscreen and high-definition (1080p) for the optimal viewing experience. --- Is life really a game of pinball? Are human actions merely the result of initial conditions, physics, and chance? This view has been adopted by some of the leading scientists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, is it a hypothesis truly scientific? Does the data taken from both experimental science and real life experience support such a claim or does it point to a different conclusion? The Reductionist Delusion presents a critical look, from the position of commonsense illustrated using statistical mathematics, at the theoretical position that all life's actions are the result of initial conditions, physics, and chance. --- This video is licensed under CC BY...
(May 19, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives what he calls "one of the most difficult lectures of the course" about chaos and reductionism. He references a book that he assigned to his students. This lecture focuses on reduction science and breaking things down to their component parts in order to understand them best. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford Department of Biology: http://biology.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
Video shows what reductionism means. an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components. Reductionism is a philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanation, theories, and meanings. Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena". Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it. Reductionism does not preclude the exi...
A powerful scientific method of observation has helped scientists understand the brain. That method closely parallels Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel's journey to make his most famous discoveries. Kandel's latest book is "Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures" (https://goo.gl/z9xUXK). Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/eric-kandel-on-reductionism-and-the-biology-of-memory Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - What reductionism allows you to do is to take a complex problem and focus on one component of it and try to understand it in some detail. And sometimes you can just do it by focusing on one component, other times it requir...
John Dupré and Alex Rosenberg discuss physicalist reductionism & anti-reductionism. According to physicalism (materialism), nothing which exists is non-physical, immaterial, spiritual, or otherwise incorporeal. According to reductionism, all facts can be captured by some purely physical description of the world. So are mental properties reducible to physical properties in this sense? Are psychology and the other social sciences reducible to biology and physics? In this debate, Dupré defends the more orthodox view, while Rosenberg defends the less popular view: physicalist reductionism. They also discuss some of the issues for both views. Reductionism faces, for instance, the problem of multiple realizability (i.e. how the very same mental states could occur in organisms which have very dif...
Brilliant lecture about chaos theory and the butterfly effect.
The important concepts of Holism and Reductionism are explored in this essential topic revision video for all A Level Psychology students as they revise Issues and Debates. To be alerted as soon as we publish more A Level Psychology videos, please SUBSCRIBE to this channel.
guillaume.karpowicz@gmail.com The music is made by the brilliant Nick Kwaś: https://wandertalk.bandcamp.com/track/modular-on-the-roof-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAQ0zDyKjCQ Thank you to Henrys and Play Juggling for providing me with respectively Circus diabolos and Deos sticks. Thank you to Operahögskolan of Stockholm. The central idea is that diabolo is very easily put in motion with seemingly no source of movement since the tension of the string is barely visible. That principle is specific to diabolo and I chose to base my recent material on it. Hence all the string climbs, translations and bounces that require no big movement.
Please watch this video in fullscreen and high-definition (1080p) for the optimal viewing experience. --- Is life really a game of pinball? Are human actions merely the result of initial conditions, physics, and chance? This view has been adopted by some of the leading scientists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, is it a hypothesis truly scientific? Does the data taken from both experimental science and real life experience support such a claim or does it point to a different conclusion? The Reductionist Delusion presents a critical look, from the position of commonsense illustrated using statistical mathematics, at the theoretical position that all life's actions are the result of initial conditions, physics, and chance. --- This video is licensed under CC BY...
(May 19, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives what he calls "one of the most difficult lectures of the course" about chaos and reductionism. He references a book that he assigned to his students. This lecture focuses on reduction science and breaking things down to their component parts in order to understand them best. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford Department of Biology: http://biology.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
John Dupré and Alex Rosenberg discuss physicalist reductionism & anti-reductionism. According to physicalism (materialism), nothing which exists is non-physical, immaterial, spiritual, or otherwise incorporeal. According to reductionism, all facts can be captured by some purely physical description of the world. So are mental properties reducible to physical properties in this sense? Are psychology and the other social sciences reducible to biology and physics? In this debate, Dupré defends the more orthodox view, while Rosenberg defends the less popular view: physicalist reductionism. They also discuss some of the issues for both views. Reductionism faces, for instance, the problem of multiple realizability (i.e. how the very same mental states could occur in organisms which have very dif...
Brilliant lecture about chaos theory and the butterfly effect.
This is a recording of a recent tutor2u A Level Psychology student revision webinar on Issues & Debates: Holism and Reductionism. To be alerted to all new A Level Psychology revision videos as they are added, please SUBSCRIBE to the tutor2u YouTube channel.
http://skywatchtv.com PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE! Timothy Alberino joins Josh and Christina in studio to talk about the dangers of a reductionist worldview and also how the scriptures can be looked at as a hologram with examples from the book of Enoch. SPECIAL NOTE FROM JOSH PECK: Christina and I have some exciting news for you all! We have been getting comments for quite some time now from viewers of Into the Multiverse telling us they love the show so much and begging us to make it longer than half an hour. Your voices have been heard! Starting now, we will be offering extended episodes EXCLUSIVELY for our YouTube audience. That's right, we are releasing the extended episode before the actual, cut-to-length episode is set to release. Why would we do this? Are we crazy? Well, perhaps, but...
Bryan Magee and Hilary Putnam discuss some of the basic issues in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics including the nature of scientific knowledge, methodology, demarcation, objectivity, the notion of truth (the correspondence theory), inductive logic, reductionism, the fact-value dichotomy, materialism, and various other things... Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions to many fields, including logic, philosophy of mind, mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. I recommend Putnam's work. You can read his book "Reason, Truth, and History" online here: https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/items/HilaryPutna...
Many modern science leaders argue that our human, daily experience is an illusion; that we are "nothing but" particles, or atoms, or behavior programs, etc. Two scientists review these claims and propose scientific ways to refute them. Recorded May 15, 2016 at National Presbyterian Church, Washington DC.
Psyentocracy is the worship of "psyentism" based on faith in mythematics, materialistic reductionism and faith in the so-called theorists (guessers) who are considered to be the media promoted and hyped to the extreme saints of this mind control religion falsely called science. This demonic psyence is owned by control freaks, aka tptb and their new world order slave paradigm. What is practiced in academia is the mind controlled version of science owned and authored by the jesuit and zionist masonic illuminati, which is more correctly termed "psyentocracy.. This slave psyence has been forced upon humanity as a way of eliminating the Creator from its Creation and placing the stooges considered geniuses by this system of mind control in places of authority where they receive endless praise...