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stavrianos on April 4, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: You Are Not Your Brain

Reductionism is a bad thing when you reduct away useful or necessary information.

rw on April 4, 2009 | [–]

Then you are slitting your wrists with Occam's razor. Nobody ought to do that.

benmathes on April 4, 2009 | [–]

No true Scotsman would reduce too far.

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