“There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.”
![“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational…” quote by Tom Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6f/tom-wolfe-2191_brain_aldous-huxley-compared-the-brain-to-a-re_1786873.jpg)
![“[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given…” quote by Francisco Varela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02c/francisco-varela-42411_accepting_m-any-people-would-accept-that-we-do-not_2580091.jpg)
