# Does Science Actually Describe Reality?

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Podcast: [The Great Updraft](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-updraft-7045130)
Published: 2026-04-19T19:00:00+00:00
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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.

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