Meta-Dialogue: mar 21

What happens if this world we are living in is not reality? And what if there is a world superior to ours?
Humans could be like the ants in GEB, there could be something greater.
Kind of what Blum said in class; we could be in a video game of some superior being y he can suddenly turn us off. And maybe we are just not capable enough to recognize this other life.

holism vs reductionism.
We (humans) are a lot of small things that when united become something bigger. But at the same time each one affects the group individually.
I dont believe this goes with the beliefs of the university, because the university defends the individual.
But what works better, a group of an individual person?

There is something different in just a bunch of individual people together, like in a doctors office, than a group of individual people with a purpose.

There is holism and reductionism in everything. At the end, every society is a mixture of holism and reductionism.

This goes hand in hand with austrian economics and the university. Many of the university values  of the university appreciate the individual because from better individuals comes a better group of people.

With people, we dont really pay attention to what we are really made of (or a level of what we are made of), like molecules, atoms, etcetera. Instead we talk about feeling when we try to define ourselves or someone else (fun, nice).

Reductionism: understanding the small parts in order to understand the whole.
holism: explain the whole in order to reach the parts.