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Prejudice that insists complex phenomena—consciousness, society, life, meaning—can and should be explained entirely by their simplest components (atoms, genes, neurons, economic forces), and that any holistic or emergent account is intellectually fraudulent. Reductionist bigotry dismisses whole disciplines (sociology, psychology, ecology) as “soft” or “unscientific,” and attacks anyone who insists that higher‑level explanations have validity. It uses the prestige of physics and molecular biology to delegitimize other scales of analysis.
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