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Theory Determines What Psychiatry and Medicine Think and Do

Medicine and psychiatry remain guided by a reductionistic theory largely discarded by other sciences, shaping care, teaching, and research often without clinicians' awareness.

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fromThe Atlantic

1 week ago

A Physics Renaissance Is Coming

Physics is shifting from strict reductionism toward studying living systems and information-processing principles, linking biology and AI and potentially redefining the field.

fromBig Think

2 months ago

Yes, reductionism can explain everything in the whole Universe

There's a statement that one can make that would have been completely non-controversial at the end of the 19th century, but many people both in and out of science would argue against it today. Consider for yourself how you feel about it: "The fundamental laws that govern the smallest constituents of matter and energy, when applied to the Universe over long enough cosmic timescales, can explain everything that will ever emerge."

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Theory Determines What Psychiatry and Medicine Think and Do

A Physics Renaissance Is Coming

Yes, reductionism can explain everything in the whole Universe

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