Likewise, a reductionist who identifies conscious states with states of the brain is not eliminating consciousness, but rather telling you something about its nature.
In these cases, pollution or environmental destruction is the result of an unnatural and reductionist vision which at times leads to a genuine contempt for man.
Can consciousness be studied using a reductionist approach, or is consciousness an emergent property arising from brain complexity and thus not amenable to the divide-and-conquer approaches of reductionism?
Scientific method did not always match modern thought, reductionist thinking is fairly new in the scheme of humanity and is beginning to go out of fashion due to scientific advancement in physics.