They believe that the genome outstrips the amount of Shannon uncertainty available in a world governed by "reductionistic" laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

That analysis may be reductionistic but is still useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow posting continues till mid-August...] Reference

Systems thinking challenges this reductionistic reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

The interaction of parts assumes a reductionistic position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puzzling over theory - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A reductionistic description of some more pervasive sea of activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory] Reference

Do not “reductionistic processes” allow us to think in this way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The String Theory Backlash] Reference

Yet another issue is whether Locke sees the distinction as reductionistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Locke] Reference

But I think it ` s too reductionistic to say, oh, she just wants attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2007] Reference

I also think the Penrose and Hameroff are reductionistic in their thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuation…] Reference

This reductionistic view is required for some endeavors and inimical to others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Patrick Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh and the Right Wing Cop-Out] Reference

Both are reductionistic, and both rejuvenated systems biology, an old discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of Human Nature~ A Symposium on the Promises and Challenges of the Revolutions in Genomics and Computer Science (Conference)~ Session Five] Reference

It seems to be the case because only mechanistic, reductionistic means are allowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Minimal Genome] Reference

But there's something about the news business that makes it inherently reductionistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Meserole: The Media's Dance with Religion] Reference

This reductionistic picture arguably obscures the holistic nature of bodily functioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Definition of Death] Reference

Legitimate objections focus on the fear that such terms are reductionistic in their effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital] Reference

Also, being able to tell 'good people' from 'bad people' by touch is horribly reductionistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [George MacDonald Completely Loses Me] Reference

The atheistic worldview is nothing if not inherently reductionistic, whether this is admitted or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hitchens: Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?] Reference

Another factor was the allure of reductionistic theories such as behaviorism and rational choice theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sloan Wilson: EvoS: Coming Soon to a College Near You] Reference

Yet the very best scientists do not limit themselves to purely reductionistic, “bottom-up” explanations.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 18th, 2008] Reference

That sounds shallow and reductionistic, but really, how complicated a theory does one need for this kind of book?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time 11: Knife of Dreams (2005)] Reference

The point is, however, that even in talking about produced capital such a reductionistic approach is not necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital] Reference

Flohr's approach is physicalistic and reductionistic, but it is entirely independent of any specific quantum ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Approaches to Consciousness] Reference

The topic has even been getting some serious scientific attention, not all of it reductionistic or otherwise negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Near-death experience and prophecy] Reference

The fact of the matter is that American medical care embodies a mechanistic and reductionistic view of health and disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dana Ullman: Energy Medicine: Futuristic Healing With Ancient Roots] Reference

Complexity has also been a source for the articulation of non-reductionistic epistemological accounts of biological reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reductionism in Biology] Reference

~ An Unreduced Mind -- "A confluence brings my attention to the reductionistic approaches to understanding our minds tonight.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 9/17/07] Reference

We should avoid reductionistic accounts of this process that emphasize one side of the dialectic to the exclusion of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong, Wrong] Reference

He has presented quite a lot of evidence that reductionistic explanations of reductionism are missing a big part of the picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memory Hole] Reference

In that reductionistic theory, all there is, ultimately -- in a way, all there COULD be -- is people acting out their psychic forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Systems vs. How the Human Mind Seems Wired to Think] Reference

It is only this focus on the reductionistic particle that makes us think consciousness is something that only exists within our cranium.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s the (Dark) Matter?] Reference

For, example when he was discussing the origin of life and evolution in general, Carl Sagan, was quite reductionistic and materialistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continuation…] Reference

So the technology has to be developed to see ever deeper as we “ponder the energy” of our reductionistic views in the early universe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Identifying Dark Matter] Reference

It is hard to listen to people who use big words and cogent arguments and much easier to fall back on the stock, reductionistic rejection.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Ivan Karamazov said that if God does not exist everything is permitted..."] Reference

There is simply not enough Shannon uncertainty in cause-and-effect determinism and its reductionistic laws to retain instructions for life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference