Are you saying that we must have dualism, and that consciousness is something that certainly cannot be reduced to “parts moved by other parts”? It’s not just that some arrangements of matter are conscious and others are not?
If there are parts, there is also a whole. A whole is not the same as parts. So if you mean by “reductionism” that there are only parts and no wholes, then reductionism is false.
If you mean by reductionism that a thing is made of its parts rather than made of its parts plus one other part, then reductionism is true: a whole is made out of its parts, not of the parts plus another part (which would be redundant and absurd.). But it is made “out of” it—it is not the same as the parts.
Are you saying that we must have dualism, and that consciousness is something that certainly cannot be reduced to “parts moved by other parts”? It’s not just that some arrangements of matter are conscious and others are not?
If there are parts, there is also a whole. A whole is not the same as parts. So if you mean by “reductionism” that there are only parts and no wholes, then reductionism is false.
If you mean by reductionism that a thing is made of its parts rather than made of its parts plus one other part, then reductionism is true: a whole is made out of its parts, not of the parts plus another part (which would be redundant and absurd.). But it is made “out of” it—it is not the same as the parts.