About This Project
Across the sciences and philosophy, a quiet reassessment is underway. The old materialist, reductionist worldview—the belief that the whole is nothing more than its parts—no longer commands the confidence it once did.
The cracks are visible:
Gödel exposes the limits of formal systems.
Quantum mechanics undermines locality and determinism.
Consciousness defies reduction to computation.
Mathematics behaves like a discovered landscape.
Agency and value resist dismissal as evolutionary mirages.
If you sense that reality is deeper, stranger, and more meaningful than reductionism allows, you’re already part of the conversation.
Welcome to Mechanized Hum.
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