Thank you for taking the time to explain! I find this sentence particularly illuminating:
> But the thing that reductionism typically misses out on is that reality is made of material _and relationships_ and when you take the material apart into the smaller parts, you break said relationships and much of the picture.
I fully agree with this position. This is actually what I attempted to explain (but not very well) with my "reductionism understood right" take above.
> But the thing that reductionism typically misses out on is that reality is made of material _and relationships_ and when you take the material apart into the smaller parts, you break said relationships and much of the picture.
I fully agree with this position. This is actually what I attempted to explain (but not very well) with my "reductionism understood right" take above.