Ethan, you don’t understand complexity or emergence. This article is patently false. Complexity is not “difficult” to understand with reductionism, it is 100% impossible. Complex phenomena are an entirely different paradigm that does not trace back its properties to its constituents. There is no recoverable causal chain leading from the outputs produced from complex phenomena to its components. Complex systems are not “sums” of their pieces; they are nondeterministic, nonlinear, and fat tailed. You are making the exact same categorical mistake the traditional economists made/make, trading reality for mathematical convenience. Nobody claiming to understand science should have written an article like this. It suggests a deep flaw in your comprehension of physical systems and the laws of nature. Please read up on complexity and spend time reviewing the decades worth of research and careers that have been dedicated to the field of complexity science.