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What is Reductionism? and Why Reductionism is a Poison You Must Avoid?

A mother is cooking in the kitchen with her younger and elder daughter. All the three are happy. From the background window a food delivery scooter is seen rushing, representing the reductionism.

D. Why everything in life is complex, and there is no simplicity, and thus nothing can be and should be reduced?

One of the key theories of “Real life” is that anything that is real life(living or having an impact on real life) is non-linear and chaotic, and that under no point of space or time, does a real-life object(being, or process) converge, and that any convergence rule, like Approximation or slicing can at-most follow a gaussian distribution of closeness, but over finite repetition, will slowly become exponentially away from the center of the distribution.

A classic example is the “8” dance of the bees. When a bee discovers a food source, it dances near the hive making 8 patterns. It is a simple movement, but the pattern has infinite variations that reflect various aspects of the food. When the scientists tried to trick the hive bees with a robot bee making the “8” pattern, the bees violently attacked the robot because this 8 was just an approximation, missing the chaotic pattern.

The universe is governed by the laws of Physics. One of the key laws of Physics is Newton’s Third law, which states that there is always an equal and opposite force.

Because life is complex, any complexity needs significant energy to execute. However, if anything gets executed with minimum effort, time, and energy, which requires years, and extraordinary effort, then there are other invisible forces that are acting alongside you to get the work done. These invisible forces can be machines, they can be the environment, luck, ecology, and so on and so forth. Because your effort is minimum, as you are reducing the complex processes, your energy is also minimum.

Work helps humans to first convert energy into emotions, and then an abundant form of energy into a form that is needed by the family.
When you are eating vegetables, each of the vegetables has its seeds. If you take and plant the seeds in abundant land, and take care of them for about 60-80 days, you will start having free vegetables. But by shopping for vegetables, and throwing away the seeds, your lazy greedy brain feels it is buying the vegetables being produced by someone else, but in reality, it is losing touch with the ground, losing money, losing satisfaction, losing happiness of farming.

Reductionism deals with sensory observation-based slicing or model-based approximation. All our senses are evolved to not suppress the noise, which in itself is chaos.

Some other classic examples of reductionism

Antibiotic=>Antibiotic resistance
Vaccine=>Viral Mutation
Gall Bladder surgey=>Sphincter of Oddi malfunction
Software=> KISS(Keep it simple stupid)=> is=>Keep it simple for Stupids

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