2018-09-24
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So once upon a time, Michelle Foucault found himself living in an age of almost unparalleled optimism about science.
He was living in a world in the early to mid-20th century,
not far removed from these huge leaps forward that we talked about in quantum mechanics,
general relativity, many other things.
And there were a lot of thinkers around this time that were extremely enthusiastic about science being the way that we're finally going to figure things out for good.
In fact, things look so promising back then.
There were even some scientists that were saying that it may be totally possible that every phenomena that we observe,
every cause and effect across the entire landscape of science, may be reducible to physics.
This attitude is also known as physical reductionism.
Now, at first this can seem like kind of a weird claim for a scientist to make.
But when you consider the size and scope of the breakthroughs that happened during their lifetimes,
and when you look at science the way that they did, it actually makes total sense.
I mean, after all, for example,
we often wonder about the psychology of an individual and what led them to think some thought or make some choice.
Well,
it's not crazy to think