ontological reductionism

What Is Machine Reductionism?

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What Is Machine Reductionism? In cognitive psychology, humans are ‘reduced’ to processors of information. This leads to ‘machine reductionism’ – the belief that human functions are the result of the ‘units’ of activity in information processing systems, such as memory stores. What is meant by the term machine reductionism? Cognitive psychology uses the principle of

What Is A Reductionist Point Of View?

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What Is A Reductionist Point Of View? Reductionism, in philosophy, a view that asserts that entities of a given kind are identical to, or are collections or combinations of, entities of another (often simpler or more basic) kind or that expressions denoting such entities are definable in terms of expressions denoting other entities. What is