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That doesn't mean that it is something in need of an antidote (which is specifically what the person you were replying to was bringing up). Of course understan
by jamesrcole 8y ago
That doesn't mean that it is something in need of an antidote (which is specifically what the person you were replying to was bringing up).
Of course understanding quantum mechanics does not give you an understanding of psychology, and nothing about reductionism claims it does!
Reductionism says basically that everything is evolving configurations of quantumn-mechanical elements, interacting in quantum mechanical ways.
But it does not directly telll you anything specifically about what the different kinds of (massive) configurations are or the ways those evolve over time. Such details are what we capture in our knowledge of fields such as Psychology.
- mcguire 8y agoYou have a very strange, almost anti-reductionist definition of reductionism. https://www.iep.utm.edu/red-ism/ https://www.iep.utm.edu/red-ism/
- scotty79 8y agoThink of gases. You can describe them in terms of volume, pressure and temperature. But you know that they are in fact just a bunch of molecules bouncing around. There's nothing new about pressure, volume and temperature that can't be derived from rules of bouncing molecules. But we still value the description in terms of these high level qualities because they provide convenient shorthand for describing how a lot of bouncing molecules behave together. Same way you can think about chemistry and physics, and biology and chemistry. Reductionism just says that complex behaviors come from simple rules applied to large number of interacting parts and no additional magic whatsoever. Which makes it only way of looking at things that is grounded in reality, as confirmed by science.