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...effort to reduce civil liberties concerns to numbers. While Brian J. Wong ’03, executive director of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, believes it is important to consider the trade-off between civil liberties and security, he said he questions social scientists’ reductionist tendency...
...reductionist, Frailty is a horror flick of the Stephen King pulp fiction ilk. A man claiming to be Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) emerges at a Texas FBI bureau from out of nowhere claiming that he knows the identity of the God’s Hand murderer, a serial killer who has slain a slew of victims all over Texas. The improbable reason? The killer is his younger brother, and to prove it, he is going to explain how the current situation came about. So, we flash back to 1979, back to Fenton’s childhood where we see that...
Science research is transforming “from an effort that is largely reductionist in focusing on individual reactions within individual cells, to a process that is far more systemic...from a micro process to a macro understanding,” Summers explains...
...reductionist model is not the best way," says Andrew Weil, a professor of medicine at University of Arizona and well-known author of books on nutrition and integrative medicine...
This may soon become a thing of the past. As Ray Kurzweil observes in his essay (beginning on page 114), information technology may be on the verge of removing the nitty-gritty, time-wasting, reductionist noodling from the human diary, leaving us freer to indulge in what our connective brains are best at: using the information webs to run connective scenarios based on what options for change present themselves at any given time, deciding what direction we want to go in and leaving it to the reductionist programs of our machines to get on with...