How to take reality apart into pieces... and live in that universe, where we have always lived, without feeling disappointed about the fact that complicated things are made of simpler things.

Definitely one of the core LW sequences. Written by Eliezer Yudkowsky, ran from 08 Mar 2008 to 05 Apr 2008, with scattered other posts elsewhere.

Items in italic are potentially skippable; items in bold are extra-important.

This sequence follows Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions and requires the following posts from it:

This sequence follows A Human's Guide to Words and requires at least the following posts from it:

Early posts out of sequence:

Main sequence

Dissolving the Question
Wrong Questions
Righting a Wrong Question
Mind Projection Fallacy
Probability is in the Mind
The Quotation is not the Referent
Qualitatively Confused
Reductionism
Explaining vs. Explaining Away
Fake Reductionism
Savanna Poets
The subsequence Joy in the Merely Real (main post here)
Hand vs. Fingers
Angry Atoms
Heat vs. Motion
Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!
Reductive Reference
The subsequence on Zombies
Excluding the Supernatural
Psychic Powers

See also

Reductionism

Alternative formats

Podcast: http://castify.co/channels/43-reductionism
Readlists: This is a compilation of the sequence Reductionism available as an ebook (mobi, epub) http://readlists.com/7afaf45e/