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Christine Long 09/12/03 IB Theory of Knowledge Nicely Sociobiology and Reductionism??? It has been taught for centuries that man was the center of the universe. That humans rule the world. And that the thing that sets people apart from the rest is their extraordinary ability to reason and make their own decisions: their freewill. So what would it mean if man's freewill was taken away? Where would that leave us? Would it make us less human? Reductionism is defined as "the attempt to explain all biological processes by the same explanations (as by physical laws) that chemists and physicists use to interpret inanimate matter." There is also a Reductionist theory that suggests that complete reductionism is possible. Reductionists have studied human behavior and suggest that human behavior is based on what our body's molecules do. What if one day they do exceed in explaining human behavior in this way? What would that mean? Would it mean...

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