Show threadmjSep 20
Political parties are the Poster Children of #reductionism taken too far. Yes, it's true that not everyone will be interested or knowledgeable enough, or simply not have the time to participate in governance, but this does not excuse grandiose, untestable claims & magical overtones as a baseline.
Peter MolemanSep 12
Important for discussions about agency and free will:
Hermida M, Ladyman J (2025): Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology. Philosophy of Science :1–18.
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2025.10115
#neuroscience #consciousness #freewill #reductionism
Philo SophiesAug 20

Zoomposium with Brigitte Falkenburg: The myth of determinism or the limits of brain research

💡https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rtAY197da61lWDNH9Yj0Y?si=HxpBwJt0RniWXp8hf6TwSg

💡https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/02/19/mythos-determinismus/

#BrigitteFalkenburg #BrainResearch # Freewill #Determinism #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #Neurophilosophy #Zoomposium #Time #Naturalism #Reductionism #Holism #Ontology #Philosophy #Neuroscience #PhilosophyOfScience #FreeWill #NaturalPhilosophy #ScienceTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Metaphysics #Epistemology

David MennessierJul 28
Disque du jour
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble / James Weeks (Performers) - Jürg Frey (Composer) "Voices"
(Neu Records/2025)
#Chorale #Reductionism
BC BY-NC-SAJul 12
Sage J Harlow – variations without a theme (drones ongs)
#Experimental #OpenScore #avantgarde #chambermusic #drone #freeimprovisation #overtonesinging #perth #reductionism #textscore #throatsinging #vocal #wandelweiser #westernaustralia #Perth
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
https://sagepbbbt.bandcamp.com/album/variations-without-a-theme-drones-ongs
variations without a theme (drones ongs), by Sage J Harlow

4 track album

Sage Pbbbt
mindsetsJul 6

"In the study of anything outside human affairs, including the study of complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting."

This—perhaps controversial—quote, about the value of exploring fundamental principles, is from Steven Weinberg in "Is the Universe a Computer?", THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, volume 49, number 16, p. 43. It is worth considering, at least.

#reductionism
#StevenWeinberg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Weinberg

Steven Weinberg - Wikipedia

Philo SophiesMay 16

There's no spice in #brevity - about the #insufficiency of #shortened #media

I would like to take a "brief" look at a #media #phenomenon. It's about the fact that “brevity is the spice of life”. During my #studies in #SocialMedia, I noticed a special form of #reductionism (in the literal sense, however), which is already close to #emptying of meaning or #dilution of #content. Just like this text ;-)

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/05/26/kuerze-keine-wuerze/

In der Kürze liegt keine Würze - verkürzte Medien

In der Kürze liegt keine Würze - über die Unzulänglichkeit verkürzter Medien: eine kurze Betrachtung der Länge von Text- und Filmbeiträgen

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RevDrMatthewFoxMay 14
7 Capital Sins correspond to shadow side of 7 Chakras: 1- #Acedia, 2- #Control/ #Addiction/ #Lust, 3- #Anger/ #Violence, 4- #Fear/ #Avarice/ #Resentment, 5- #Gluttony/ #Consumerism, 6- #Rationalism/ #Reductionism/ #Pessimism, 7- #Envy/ #Resentment #SinsOfSpirit #BlessingsOfFlesh
Image: Hieronymus Bosch, "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things"
https://www.matthewfox.org/donation-store/sins-of-the-spirit-blessings-of-te-flesh-revised-edition-transforming-evil-in-soul-and-society
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh (Revised Edition): Transforming Evil in Soul and Society — Welcome from Matthew Fox

Fox makes the point that religion has so often oversold the concept of “sin” that it has left us without language or power to combat evil. He compares the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins. Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for perso

Welcome from Matthew Fox
Show threadjanMay 5
The limits of mechanistic dogma are very examples of the restrictiveness of self-imposed methodologies that fabricate non-existent artificial ‘limitations’ on science and knowledge. The limitations are due to the nongenericity of the methods and their associated bounded microcosms.
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
#relationalbiology #biology #reductionism #science #knowledge
Show threadjanMay 5
Any question becomes unanswerable if one does not permit oneself a large enough universe to deal with the question. The failure of reductionism is that of the inability of a small surrogate universe to exhaust the real one. Equivocations create artefacts.
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
#relationalbiology #biology #reductionism