ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a broad stroke–style painted canvas, showing the reader the present-day foundation for this type of approach and directions for explorations and applications in the future. Methodological reductionism is a philosophical position based on precise definitions of subjects and objects that exist in reality. By distinction, epistemic reductionism reflects the knowledge about a safe system in terms of the idea that one scientific domain or discipline, a higher-level feature of the system, can be reduced to and explained by lower-level features. Many of the problems that mankind seeks to solve are often daunting and critical to our survival at an individual or even global scale. Science provides people with an understanding of the far reaches of the universe while at the same time teaches people about a singularity to which all biological systems are connected as a biosphere and to the four forces of nature.
