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Well shit, I talked myself into arguing against holistic thinking. Hofstadter got it wrong. The opposite of holism is not reductionism (that still inherits the well-posedness delusion of holism). The opposite is fragmentism (shardism? disconnectionism? muttism? discordianism?)
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Fragmentism by contrast, doesn't expect any sort of coherent roll-up of a localized solution to any problem to anything bigger, more holistic. It is not an integrationist view of differential bits of the universe. More strongly, it speculates that such roll-up is unnecessary
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