irreducible

I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.

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

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.

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

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