Reductionism Redux: Computing the Embryo

The Redux 0 Server

Redux 0 is a subset of the full REDUX modell7]. The latter performs problem solving. In contrast Redux 0 does not and acts only as a decision maintenance server. It takes objects of types deened in an ontology of decision components and maintains dependencies between them. Redux 0 is domain-independent. The dependency relationships are maintained on the basis of proposition type and not content...

Aspects of reductionism in religious studies

  Reductionism is a major methodological mistake in research and generally in thought; because it can pose as an obstacle to comprehensive views about the researched issue. This issue is more tangible in religious phenomena - due to the multidimensional entity of this subject – and can be more destructive. A researcher through focusing on one role and aspect of religion and concentrating on a ...

Emergent Collectives Redux: The Sharing Economy

Assisting, but not dictating.

WHEN READING A JOURNAL SUCH AS SCIENCE, one is easily seduced into believing that empirical evidence can resolve moral disputes. In his Letter “Human being redux” (16 Apr., p. 388), M. S. Gazzaniga defends human embryonic stem cell research because of the vast discrepancy between a tiny ball of cells that can fit on the head of a pin and a live human being. J. T. Durkin (“The case against stem ...

From Reductionism to Holism: Systems-oriented Approaches in Cancer Research

Somatic mutation theory of cancer has directed cancer research during the last century. A deluge of information on cellular, molecular, and genetic behavior was uncovered, but so was a mind-numbing complexity that still challenges research and concepts, and expectations in the war on cancer have by and large not been fulfilled. A change of paradigm beyond reductionism has been called for, espec...