"The problem is that we're relying on a very reductionist way of looking at what the brain does," he says.
With a top-down view comes an understanding of what must be controlled to attain a network flux state, and with a reductionist view comes an understanding of the mechanisms that achieve such control.
The scientists who work in synthetic biology often take a perfunctory, reductionist view of what they do.
In this published version of the Terry lectures, delivered at Yale University last year, the novelist Marilynne Robinson argues that positivism, the belief that science is the only reliable means to truth, has adopted a "systematically reductionist" view of human nature.
Second, we are made to believe that a body that doesn't fit into a reductionist view of wellness is unwell (and we beat ourselves up for being hypocritical for valuing "wellness" but not embodying it).
It has further been suggested that the excessive reliance on risk assessment tools may give rise to a reductionist view of pregnancy and birth as a biomedical event as opposed to a holistic and integrated life process [ 34, 39, 41].
We should not such take a reductionist view of the electorate.
He added that a "reductionist view of the human condition" had prevailed in the run-up to the financial crisis.
In fact, it was based on a reductionist view of evolution.
Note that this is a reductionist view of existence, both actual and non-actual possible.
