Reductionism Is Wrong

By Leo Gura - December 30, 2025

Anyone who reduces any aspect of reality in any degree is immediately wrong.

A human is just cells…. Wrong!
A cell is just a bunch of amino acids… Wrong!
A computer program is just a series of calculations… Wrong!
A thought is just some neurons sending chemical signals to each other… Wrong!
Happiness is just a chemical in the brain… Wrong!
Red is just 700-nm electro-magnetic radiation… Wrong!
Color is just light hitting your retina… Wrong!
Light is just photons… Wrong!
A river is just a bunch of water molecules… Wrong!
A forest is just a bunch of trees… Wrong!
A book is just a bunch of words… Wrong!
A corporation is just a bunch of people… Wrong!
A national border is just a line drawn on a map… Wrong!
Race is just genetics…. Wrong!
Science is just empirically testable propositions… Wrong!
Science is just hypothesis, experiment, analyze data, report result… Wrong!
Truth is just sentences that correspond to the world… Wrong!
The Earth is just stardust… Wrong!
The sun is just hydrogen atoms undergoing fusion… Wrong!
The universe is just particles… Wrong!
Space is just X/Y/Z coordinates… Wrong!
Thinking is just transformer networks… Wrong!
Language is just a network of symbols all pointing to each other… Wrong!
Consciousness is just an arrangement of matter… Wrong!
A psychedelic trip is just hallucinations in the brain… Wrong!
Dreams are just random firings of the brain… Wrong!
Memories are just arrangements of neurons… Wrong!
God is just nonduality… Wrong!
God is just Nothing… Wrong!
Experience is just see/hear/feel… Wrong!
Life is just chemistry… Wrong!
Protons are just quarks… Wrong!
Water is just H2O… Wrong!
Salt is just sodium and chloride… Wrong!
Evolution is just random mutation and genetics… Wrong!
Spirituality is just enlightenment… Wrong!
Reality is just distinctions… Wrong!
Everything is just math… Wrong!
Doing math is just crunching numbers… Wrong!
Music is just vibrations of air… Wrong!
Coca Cola is just sugar water… Wrong!
A chicken nugget is just chicken meat coated in bread crumbs… Wrong!
A diamond is just carbon… Wrong!
Hydrogen is just an atom with 1 proton… Wrong!
Basketball is just throwing a ball into a hoop… Wrong!
A drawing is just ink on paper… Wrong!
Religion is just psychology and politics… Wrong!
Psychology is just the study of human behavior… Wrong!
Intelligence is just IQ… Wrong!
Love is just a chemical emotion… Wrong!
Sex is just inserting a penis into a vagina… Wrong!
Gender is just XX/XY chromosomes… Wrong!
A video game is just computer code…. Wrong!
An animation is just a series of images… Wrong!
Understanding is just true beliefs… Wrong!
Money is just digits in a bank account… Wrong!
An omelet is just cooked eggs… Wrong!
A city is just a collection of buildings… Wrong!
A woman is just a man with tits and a vagina… Wrong!
Lightning is just electricity… Wrong!
A tornado is just a bunch of moving heated air… Wrong!
Time is just whatever a clock measures… Wrong!
Mass is just an object’s tendency to resist motion… Wrong!
Sand dunes are just a bunch of sand… Wrong!
Legos are just plastic bricks… Wrong!
Force is just mass x acceleration… Wrong!
An economy is just a bunch of self-interested rational agents exchanging goods with each other… Wrong!
Schizophrenia is just a mental disorder involving lack of serotonin in the brain… Wrong!
ChatGPT is just an advanced word calculator… Wrong!
Mysticism is just fantasy and irrational thinking… Wrong!
Hair is just keratin protein… Wrong!
The mind is just the brain… Wrong!

All of this is slop. Reductionism is stupidity. Scientists are hopelessly lost in it.

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