Nevertheless—and this is key—these better-suited human-level stories must be compatible with the reductionist account. We are physical creatures subject to physical law. And so there’s little to be gained by physicists clamoring that theirs is the most fundamental explanatory framework or from humanists scoffing at the hubris of unbridled reductionism. A refined understanding is gleaned by integrating each discipline’s story into a finely textured narrative.
