The principle of reduction inevitably resulted in reduction of the complex to the simplistic. It especially "atomizes" living beings, applying the mechanical determinist logic of artificial machines to human complexities.
This process can obscure the truth of wholeness and eliminate all elements that cannot be measured and quantified, taking the human out of what is human, such as passions, emotions, sorrows and joys. Further, when the principle of reduction follows a determinist premise, it obscures what is fortuitous, new, and inventive.
According to Edgar Morin - because we were taught to separate, compartmentalize and isolate learning instead of making connections, the whole of our knowledge forms an unintelligible puzzle.
Interactions, retroactions, contexts and complexities - lost in the no-man's land between different disciplines - and became invisible. Major human problems disappeared from our view, obscured by specific technical problems. The inability to organize scattered compartmentalized learning leads to atrophy of our natural mental disposition to perceive connections and "wholes."
"Fragmented, compartmentalized, mechanized, disjunctive, reductionist, intelligence breaks the 'world-complex' into disjointed fragments, fractures problems, separates what is connected, and makes the multidimensional unidimensional.
"This intelligence is nearsighted and often goes blind. Possibilities of comprehension and reflection are nipped in the bud: the chances of corrective judgement or a long-term view are drastically reduced.
"We find ourselves in a vicious cycle of increasingly multidimensional problems combined with a growing incapacity to think multidimensionally; our crisis worsens as fast as the incapacity to reflect on the crisis increases; the more planetary our problems, more they are left unthought.
"Blind intelligence - unable to envisage the planetary context and complex - makes us unaware, unconcerned and irresponsible."
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