Why do reductionists exist /his/?

>he says while posting a reductionist comic

>>879344
Complexity is terrifying. Easy answers are comforting.

It requires a lesser mental effort while making you feel equally as smart.

>>879356
This desu. It's much easier to justify your degree in whatever you're a degree in if you can argue that biology is just chemistry, and chemistry is just physics. Emergent properties are scary.

>>879344
>Why do reductionists exist /his/?
banter

>>879344
Quantum mechanics.

>>879353
>implying that the comic isn't lampooning reductionism with Green Shirt Guy proving why reductionism is retarded

>>879344
>doesn't believe in love
>believes love is chemically confirmed for proven to physically exist in material reality
I don't get it guys.

>>879344
>Why do reductionists exist /his/?

Lack of basic scientific education.