irreducible

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The larger the integrated information, the more the circuit is irreducible, the less it can be considered just the superposition of independent subcircuits.

From Scientific American

There’s a gap — or a lag, maybe — between how new technologies can reduce our personhood to data, and the irreducible facts of our bodies, our health, our need to eat and sleep.

From New York Times

And astronomers say that, given irreducible gaps in our knowledge of ’Oumuamua, this new proposal may never be fully accepted either.

From Scientific American

“The Venezuelan people reiterate their firm and irreducible determination to defend our sovereignty.”

From Washington Post

This is a moment of clarity, in which all of the women in the room witness together both the necessity of forgiveness and its irreducible complications, its transformative power alongside its dangerous amenability to injustice.

From Salon