mechanistic reductionism views things in their parts, as dead and unmoving.
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“Systems are best understood as machines: Decomposable parts, local pushes and pulls, linear bottom-up causation, linear bottom-up causes only. Wholes = sum of parts. No qualitative leaps. Higher level vocabularies (biology/psychology/…) are just convenience.”