# Does Science Actually Describe Reality?

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Podcast: [Deep Psychology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-psychology-6651282)
Published: 2026-04-19T18:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.deep-psychology.com
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Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholes For example, science will say a human is really just cells, which are really just atoms, which are mostly nothing! No - the human is the human. It is irreducible. Sure, we can analyse and parse it, but the constituent elements are not the human, by definition. This is a snippet from my episode Science is Addicted to Explanations (#140).

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