Synergy is the associated behavior of ‘wholes’, not predicted by examination of the ‘parts’. So as Universe becomes more complex, reductionism fails to be as effective a strategy for understanding. In the past scientists have referred to the sciences of Physics and Chemistry as the hard sciences and those of Biology, Psychology and Sociology as the soft sciences. By this they implied that the scientists in the soft sciences were not as precise and rigorous as those in the hard sciences. The physicist with his hard science is not necessarily more precise and rigorous than the psychologist with his soft science, the physicist has been focusing on the so called simpler ‘parts’ of Universe, while the psychologist has been focusing on the more complex ‘parts’ of process. But something deeper is going on here. Science is making an even more fundamental error. The labeling of stages of process as ‘parts’ of Universe represents an even larger error. The stages of process are not ‘parts’ they are ‘wholes’. And the study of ‘wholes’ requires an inclusive approach. This approach is diametrically opposed to reductionism. (02/15/02)