The real discussion: Values (Humans)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 29, 2015, 01:24 (3034 days ago) @ romansh

Romansh: Philosophers have questioned the validity of assuming that cause and effect are true and quite accurately point out there is no deductive method validating cause and effect. Having said that the inductive method (reductionism) has been really useful in moving what passes for knowledge forward.-Quite correct, but reducing a cell to all of its operating parts and reactions doesn't tell us why it is alive. Put all the lab-reproduced parts in a lab-produced membrane and all you have is a sack of parts. There must be something beyond reductionism.