# An Affirmation of the Limits of Materialism Nothing new to say here but that I accept the [[hard problem of consciousness|Hard Problem of Consciousness]] to be real [[How the Big Influences the Small|How the Big Influences the Small]] > Are we not dealing here with the ==analytic assumption that any reality is reducible to a sum total of elements==? Now, though analysis may be the instrument of science, it is also the instrument of humor. If in describing a rugby match, I write, “I saw adults in shorts fighting and throwing themselves on the ground in order to send a leather ball between a pair of wooden posts,” I have summed up what I have *seen,*but I have intentionally missed its meaning. > > [[An Explication of The Stranger by Jean-Paul Sartre]]