Reductionism with Command and Control

In hard sciences, we aim to describe causality from the bottom up, from elementary particles. Atoms form molecules, molecules form objects, and the reason objects bounce off each other is reduced to electromagnetic interactions between the molecules in their surfaces. Molecules in DNA determine production of proteins which result in cell operations which construct organisms. …

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Spiders

Linda (5) told me, there’s a spider in a web in the basement! I said, get a broom and knock it down. So she got a broom. Then she came to me, will you do it? Sure. She showed me the spiderweb, and there was the spider, and i was like ooh, it looks cool! …

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