B-3-2 還元主義に対抗するものとしての階層性の論理 : 精神医学の理論的諸問題について(医療工学の諸問題(1))

抄録

Modern science has adapted a method to reduce to some constituents and integrate them again. This method has been a great success in many fields of natural science. Therefore, it has been applied for biology or life science including the clinical and basic medicine. Even in the field of psychiatry, this tendency is getting dominant. However, if once we consider the problem of consciousness or self, it would be difficult or impossible to apply reductionism for this problem. We cannot probably find out the entity of consciousness or self in any area of the brain or nerve cells. Thus the reductionism seems utterly helpless. The theme of the emergence may commit itself on this issue. In this paper, we will criticize the reductionism by considering the hierarchy of the world or the possibility for the upper class to govern the lower class in complex system.