Reductionism Will Always Play Catch-Up to What is Already Obvious to the Reasoned Mind

In another bout of proclaimed “progress” in that field called neuroScIeNce we now have apparent insight into “How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero.”

In reality, there isn’t a single insight here that could not have been arrived at through basic reasoning and an awareness of one’s own thought processes.

The current paradigm goes around chasing neurons for everything from zeros to apple pie.

Obviously there are different firing patterns. This will never not be the case. Obviously numbers further apart on the number line will be remembered more easily (see my last tweet on spatial reasoning).

Reductionism has removed so much context and meaning from the languages we use to discuss (and publish) science, that experiments are little more than a game of playing catch-up to that which is obvious to a mind that does not toss meaning out the window.