Does Science Actually Describe Reality?

About this episode

The episode discusses the limitations of science in defining reality, emphasizing the irreducibility of human existence.

Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholes For example, science will say a human is really just cells, which are really just atoms, which are mostly nothing! No - the human is the human. It is irreducible. Sure, we can analyse and parse it, but the constituent elements are not the human, by definition.

People in this episode

Host: Ross Edwards

Topics covered

• science
• reality
• human existence
• reductionism
• philosophy

Keywords

• science
• reality
• human
• cells
• atoms
• philosophy
• reductionism

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