Abstract
The philosophical foundations of reductionist biological psychiatry are internally self-contradictory. Mind is simultaneously disallowed and “explained” by the reductionist approach; this internal self-contradiction invalidates reductionist biological psychiatry at the level of its philosophical foundation. Three theories that dominate science today are based on a reductionist approach: the Big Bang theory, the origins of life 3.7 billion years ago, and the emergent property model of the relationship between mind and brain. The problem with these theories is not with the science, rather it is the way the three theories are used to validate a logically untenable philosophical position, which in biological psychiatry insists on a model of mind as an emergent property of brain function. The universe, evolution, and the human mind, within this reductionist philosophy, are all based on the workings of automatic machinery. The purpose of the present article is to analyze the fundamental logical errors underlying biological psychiatry, which is based on a mechanistic model of the universe.
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