Episode
Does Science Actually Describe Reality?
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- The Great Updraft
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- Apr 19, 2026
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- 352
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Summary
Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholesFor 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.